About
The Artist.
Janie Stevens
is the Greenthwaite sculptor and was born in Yorkshire. After living and working in London, Spain and France she came back home and started a family with husband Paul. They now live and work just outside York.
Janie switched from spectator to artist relatively late in life, at first as a means of therapy. Known for her sensual and organic forms, Janie trained under Dominic Hopkinson in Stone and Tim Foster in Wood, at York College.
She has always admired the fluidity of works by Hepworth, Nicholson, Moore and more current artists like Peter Randall Page and Hamila Cassell. She mainly works in lime and occasionally sapele wood and Ancaster Limestone.
The Studio.
‘The style of sculpting in which the tool dictates the direction of the hand – an extension of the soul’.
The Process.
‘Carving untangles the knots, removes the obstacles and helps me to move forward – it is a kind of therapy. I would highly recommend it ! ’
Janie doesn’t sketch the work, she lets the grain, in the case of wood and the light in stone to suggest a form. Seeing space as a physical substance, trapped, squeezed, and manipulated, she punctuates space to offer the viewer alleyways of silence for contemplation.
Above all she desires the work to have an emotional impact on the observer.
