Jayne McStay studied History of Architecture in the Built Environment at Teesside University 1995. After returning to Northern Ireland Jayne worked as a trainee potter for a number of years before undertaking a Foundation Diploma in Fine Art at the Upper Bann Institute.
Jayne currently works within the community arts and development sector in Belfast. She believes passionately in enabling diverse groups to express the personality of their own community through the medium of art.
The themes of Jayne’s pieces are inspired both by natural and manmade landscapes and structures throughout Northern Ireland. Some of these images represent and also celebrate the emergence of a country from conflict to peace.
Jayne continues this theme through the use of her materials by marrying the old with the new. Drawing from the natural landscape she works with a traditional Bangor Blue slate as a backdrop for the porcelain and plaster of Paris images she creates.
To date Jayne’s pieces have been privately commissioned, however she now feels it is the time to embrace the rejuvenation and new opportunities opening up to Northern Ireland and its creative industries through tourism.
Jayne’s says …“ I feel my work is a celebration of the beauty and hope that I believe Northern Ireland….my home….expresses today.”
Jayne currently works within the community arts and development sector in Belfast. She believes passionately in enabling diverse groups to express the personality of their own community through the medium of art.
The themes of Jayne’s pieces are inspired both by natural and manmade landscapes and structures throughout Northern Ireland. Some of these images represent and also celebrate the emergence of a country from conflict to peace.
Jayne continues this theme through the use of her materials by marrying the old with the new. Drawing from the natural landscape she works with a traditional Bangor Blue slate as a backdrop for the porcelain and plaster of Paris images she creates.
To date Jayne’s pieces have been privately commissioned, however she now feels it is the time to embrace the rejuvenation and new opportunities opening up to Northern Ireland and its creative industries through tourism.
Jayne’s says …“ I feel my work is a celebration of the beauty and hope that I believe Northern Ireland….my home….expresses today.”
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