Jane Dorner uses colour in glass as a medium for painting in light. She makes free-standing sculptural pieces and wall-mounted structures for modern interior settings.
Jane has developed a technique of her own. She makes an embryo form in pâte de verre. This an ancient technique going back to the Egyptians and revived in the 19th century by art nouveau artists. Jane’s work is entirely in the modern idiom. She ‘paints’ into a mould with finely crushed glass mixed with a binding material to create a paste. This is fired to fuse the glass. It is then removed from the mould, heated up again, picked up on a bubble of hot glass and fired in.
Jane is also in partnership with the photographer Gudawer Kalirai producing framed landscape art photography from details of the glass. These are well suited to corporate environments or the modern home.
Jane Dorner is a ‘mid-career-change artist’, coming to glass from a career in publishing. She completed an MA in Glass (Distinction) at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, Surrey, in 2008.