British artist Jan Crombie lives and works in Oxford.

Projects are sometimes self-contained and self referential, at other times outward looking or site specific. All are driven by an interest in finding a chink in the real and imagined armour that protects the human psyche. Subject matter is by turns political and personal, sometimes playful, but more often raw and destructive.

The viewer is invited not only to relate to the subject matter but also to the series of actions or manoeuvres that created the work. The raw act of painting is explicit, and the metaphysical acts and decisions that precede and follow the movement of the brush must therefore also be explicit. The speed and intensity of the rendering becomes the image, both compassion and disdain reflected through the urgency of the brush.