ARTIST BIO
“A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.” ― William Wordsworth
Jane Camp is an art educator and a working, exhibiting artist. She is a Distinguished Professor of Art at Heartland Community College and has worked at Heartland since 1994. She has also taught for Tennessee State University, Illinois State University, and Richland Community College. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Illinois Wesleyan University and her Master of Science degree and Master of Fine Arts degree from Illinois State University. Jane’s photographs, drawings, and paintings have been exhibited in many local and national exhibitions. Jane has been fortunate to participate in many collaborative art projects. She successfully co-operated a photography business, Outer Glow Photography, for 10 years.
One theme of her photographic work addressed the waters of the Great Lakes: "Water is Involved.” She received a sabbatical from Heartland Community College to explore the Great Lakes through analog and digital photographic formats. This series was exhibited at the McLean County Art Center the following year. The goal of this body of photos was to show how different cameras capture a similar scene with distinct peculiarities, creating visual interest from the same subject. Photographs created with the Holga, one of the ten cameras Jane uses, have been a mainstay of her photographic work. The soft, vignetting quality of Holga photographs encapsulates an ethereal vision that appeals to Jane’s photographic vision. This camera, along with several others, is her constant companion wherever she wanders.
Much of Jane's drawing and painting focuses on a group called "Random Pages". Random bits from nature become enlarged and abstracted to suggest something beyond their origins. The unknown can be the most fascinating and mysterious. She is currently revisiting non-representational, color-driven designs that rely on the subconscious, intuitive self.
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