Ocean movement fused in glass
in her glass paintings, Jane reeves captures the mood and movement of her favourite subject: the sea
aS The AFTERNOON sunlight streams through Victorian sash windows into Jane Reeves’ airy art studio, it illuminates a space filled with the cool and calming colours of the sea. A large wooden table dominates, splattered with a mix of sea green, turquoise and sky blue paint, and at one end stands a tray of small paint bottles containing every conceivable shade of blue. The theme is continued on the walls, which are hung with the artist’s glowing aquamarine seascapes. Along the shelves, duck-egg blue ceramics nestle among books and CDs. “I only have eyes for blue,” jokes Jane, acknowledging her love for the colour. In the middle of the studio table, a large jar is crammed with paintbrushes and tools, including pliers, glass cutters and spatulas. A box of neatly filed photographs sits nearby, a record of many visits to the Cornish coast, the source of her inspiration. Demanding attention alongside them is a large glass panel painted with slowly breaking waves, their glassy green undersides delicately splashed with specks of spray and windswept foam. This is one of Jane’s fused glass paintings, an unusual and technically challenging art form that she has developed over the last 10 years. Her glass artworks are inspired by a deep fascination with the sea. They depict waves in all their variety, from the calm ripples of a hot summer’s