There are three main categories to Jane’s work.

The ‘White Suit’ Sculptures ... this work developed after earlier training as a fashion designer. Each animated sculpture is individually made. The steel framed core is built up by layering soft materials, the top suit is finished in fibre glass.

The Perspex Cases ... these conceptual pieces combine photography and text pristinely set inside acrylic boxes.  The photographs taken by Jane are of the contemporary buildings that are now a strong feature of the City's changing landscape. The text is sourced from financial journals, and by using puns – an efficient and economic use of language – they give humour and insight, probing the powers-that-be.

Jane’s aim is to give a cool and dispassionate vision.

With tenacious probing, coupled with humour, she offers the viewer an opportunity to question and gain insight into the financial world.

The earlier soft furniture sculptures have a surreal quality in which their powerful simplicity results in clarity and boldness.

The darkly glowing radiantly blue paintings have developed over the last eight years and were exhibited for the first time in 2008.

Jane explores the effect of the evening light upon the City’s architecture, using specific formal elements of colour, surface and space.

She layers powder pigment on canvas to give a soft dry surface of intense colour, which draws the viewer into the picture plane, and appears more sculptural than two dimensional.

'Jane Goodwin's art is orientated towards investigating, highlighting and echoing the multi-faceted reality and shenanigans of 'Life in the City'. A conceptual artist armed with sharp wit,concise snappy puns and dry humour, she mirrors the suave yet bitter intellectual settings and mental overdrive of business practice.

Goodwin's art focuses as much on the people as the systems within the environment of 'The Square Mile'. She is interested in the people who work in the financial world - from the highly paid Prop Trader, with their frantic edginess, to the general worker whose anonymous group identity lays bare those stark moments of personal recognition'.

Quote from THE CONTEMPORARY ART SOCIETY exhibition at ETC Venues