Jane Dalton

Jane Dalton’s drawings are concerned with the repetition and symmetries found within the natural world. The blank ‘page’ is transformed by her slow accumulation of small, repeated marks. Each mark is meticulously placed, distinct and separate – there are no collisions. The painstaking work invites a slow reading. Time is needed to unravel and interpret the ambiguous surfaces.

Jane’s practice is research based, her dual inspirations are the concept of ‘Multiplicity and Unity’ and the scrutinising lens of science.

Dark Matter is extraordinary stuff; it is made from material unknown to science and is invisible to current telescope technology. Its existence can only be detected by the gravitational pull it exerts on the galaxies around it.

“Though it draws farther things closer to our eyes, you can also judge that there remain other things, even further away, which it could never reach.”
(Federico Cesi, friend of Galileo, 1635, commenting on the newly invented telescope)

“Know the world from end to end is a mirror;
in each atom a hundred suns are concealed.
If you pierce the heart of a single drop of water,
from it will flow a hundred clear oceans;
if you look intently at each speck of dust,
in it you will see a thousand beings.”
(Mahmud Shabistari, Sufi 13th Century)