Frances Jane is a visual artist who lives and works in the Bay Area of California. Born and raised just outside Milwaukee, WI, she felt bound to the routine and monotony of suburban life. Drawing the houses and buildings she passed by daily was a way to find charm in the built environment through reinterpretation. Her art practice became one of mindfulness and acceptance; art not as an escape, but a way into her environment. She currently takes commissions for house portraits.

Her work has been published in december, Vagabond City (forthcoming), and exhibited in The Flow Project and a solo show Rove, Record, Unravel. Working primarily with pen and ink, her drawings are detailed, highly contrasted, often playing with light and shadow to create scenes that are solitary and expressive. A self-taught artist, her creative process is built upon the idea of embracing limitations in materials, instruction, and subjects. Seeing ink as a binary medium, her linework simultaneously reveals trust and mistrust; each mark must have an individual impact, while her lines remain slow, cautious, and purposeful. This tension in her use of ink is a reflection of her relationship to art making and living.