Jane Barrow’s paintings portray movement through space, constructing fields that can only be viewed through one frozen moment. Barrow’s past bodies of work place the viewer in the cockpits of fighter jets, twilight bogs, and abstract planes grounded only by shadows, all using complex compositions and earthy color palettes. Barrow’s current work focusses on arrangements of mid-flight leaves, swirling and curling into complex patterns at the expense of unseen forces yet presented through a medium of complete stillness.

 

Barrow lives and works in the historic neighborhoods of downtown St. Louis. She has shown nationally and internationally, with work in the collections of John Mellencamp, the Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg, VA, Lungwha University in Taipei, Taiwan, PNC Financial Services Group in Pittsburgh, PA, Ameren in St. Louis, and CIBC in Chicago. She recently retired as Professor and Head of Painting at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, where she taught for twenty-five years.