Jane C. Canfield, painter, was born in 1967 in Christchurch, New Zealand. The only child of Rosemary Grace (Cherril) Durrant and Anthony George William (Tony) Canfield, she lived as a child in Faulconbridge and Leura, New South Wales, as well as in Tasmania and England. Canfield grew up surrounded by art; her father was an established painter and her uncles, Neville and John Canfield, were also artists. As an adult, Canfield spent three years in Canberra and five years in Townsville, but returned to the Blue Mountains in 1998.
Two weeks after her father’s death from a long illness with Multiple Sclerosis in 2004, Canfield began to seriously paint in oils. Her work was highly commended at the Cowra Regional Art Gallery in 2005, and she was the finalist for the Mosman Art Prize in 2009 and for the Paddington Art Prize in 2010. That same year, Canfield was the winner of the Rose Lindsay Art Award at the Springwood Art Show in Faulconbridge.
Canfield trained as a Graphic Designer at TAFE, Randwick, from which she graduated in 1986. Influenced by the paintings of Australian women artists from the 1920s to the 1950s, her work is mainly in oil and gouache.
- Writers:
- Jane Canfield
- Date written:
- 2010
- Last updated:
- 2011
