Jane Hoskin

ENGLISH

Contact :

jane@hoskin410.freeserve.co.uk

http://www.checkdirector.co.uk/director/jane-hoskin/http://www.beadsononestring.org/myb/

Many of the following images were published in on-line magazine OmPoint International Circular, published by Laurent Weichberger.

Jane writes: ‘The paintings I make are initially from photographs, then imagination comes into play and the work seems to take on a life of its own and can take sometimes over a year to complete. The medium I use is either gouache on paper or acrylic on canvas. Some time ago I heard a tape made by the woman mandali and Elaine Cox of ‘The Songs of Huma’, the ghazals written by Baba in the 1920’s, so the recent paintings that I have made of Baba are with these beautiful and sacred songs in mind. I have a deep love of Persian and Indian miniatures, not only for their jewel like quality but their aim, to capture a mystical world, the ‘alam al-khayal’ , which, although still within the world of imagination, stands above the physical as ‘a gateway to higher states of being’. The skill and perfection of these masters is a constant source of inspiration.