Jane Ryan
Automata
Jane studied Fine Art at Chelsea School of Art and moved to West Cornwall in 1988 with her first baby. She started a company making mechanical toys for grown ups ‘Opi’, combining motherhood and work.
Jane uses a lot of reclaimed wood, appreciating the history of the material and recently she has been using oak which is good to work with gives a lot of weight to the pieces. All of Jane’s pieces are one off, no two are the same although they have recurrent themes over the years which reflect her seaside home, gardening, food and she hopes that her work is infused with genuine humour. She has always been more interested in decoration and form than clever mechanics and her toys have simple mechanisms designed to charm rather than to amaze.
Pictures shown here are samples of work, the actual exhibition pieces will be added at the time of the show.
