An exhibition in memory of Jane Osmond

Macclesfield landscape artist Jane Osmond, who died in February, is being honoured with an exhibition in her memory.

Jane – a stalwart of Macclesfield’s creative community – created pictures inspired by the town and countryside from her studio-home in Kerridge – where she lived with her children, Jim and Pip.

She specialised in the creation of etchings – using a printing press made especially for her – to the same design as one used by Rembrandt. The press will feature in the exhibition of her work organised by Jim and Pip.

Pip said: “Jim and I are really pleased that we’ve been given the chance to exhibit the entire collection of mum’s work.

“Lots of people from Macclesfield know her etchings of local landscapes but there are lesser-known etchings and screen prints on show from her time in places such as Norway and Cornwall.

Snowy Rainow by Jane Osmond (click on image to enlarge)

“She moved into painting in the last years of her life and we will have these on show as well.

“The exhibition is a chance for people to celebrate mum’s life as a much-loved local artist.”

Hurdsfield Church by Jane Osmond (click on image to enlarge)

Jane was born in St Alban’s – growing up in and around Hertfordshire. She studied at Camberwell Art School and was granted a scholarship by the British Council to study in Oslo for a year, where she fell in love with the Scandinavian landscape.

Her parents moved to Macclesfield in the mid-1970s and she moved to join them in 1977 – where she began creating her etchings of the local countryside.

Incubation Arts, an arts group run by Jane’s friends, Jeff Teasdale and Julie Hamer, is hosting the exhibition at its new home in Churchill Way Chambers in Macclesfield.

The group is also raising money to buy Jane’s printing machine from her children for an agreed sum of £2,000.

Jeff, a sculptor and painter, said: “There can be few homes around Macclesfield which does not own a Jane Osmond print.

“Jane was a popular and prolific print-maker, a stalwart of the creative community in Macclesfield.”

Jane Osmond: A Retrospective, will be at Churchill Way Chambers, Churchill Way until August 27 11am to 4pm from Wednesday to Saturday, or during the Treacle Market on Sunday, August 27.