Jane's Pender Art

Jane Hammond – I’m a life-long painter addicted to colour and line. I grew up in Montreal and lived there until coming to the West Coast in 2002.  In 1989 I graduated from Concordia University, Montreal with a BFA in Studio Art.  I worked as a street artist in downtown Montreal in the nineties while at the same time maintaining a studio ‘La porte bleu’ on the edge of Griffentown where I lived, worked and gave art lessons.

Sharing my knowledge and acting more as a coach on an individual or small group basis is my preferred method of ‘teaching’. I work in all mediums favouring oil paint. As well as studying drawing and painting I studied stone carving with Stanley Lewis at the Sadye Bronfman and clay and mold making with Jacques Benard in Montreal West.

My subjects for painting and sculpture are many and varied. Portraits, both human and the four-legged kind, sea scapes, landscapes, fields and city streets and buildings.  Especially those in Montreal.  It takes me a long time to finish a painting.  I like the struggle in the paint I see in the end result. I feel this gives the work more depth and meaning and is the reason I paint.  If I could do the painting perfectly without effort and quickly then I wouldn’t  paint.  I’m never happier than when I’m in the middle of the struggle.

Jane Hammond, painted by David Goatley, 2006