Jane Martin is an award-winning artist working in video stills, photography and video installation. She is represented in corporate, private and museum collections worldwide, with solo exhibitions at Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton, New York and Islip Art Museum in East Islip, New York. A catalogue of her work, “Closer Far Away” was published at the occasion of the Islip Art Museum exhibition.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Martin graduated summa cum laude from SUNY, College at Oneonta, with a B.A. in Studio Art. She was chosen to participate in a study-abroad program at the Institut de Touraine in Tours, France under the direction of Erik Koch, former student of and assistant to abstract expressionist Hans Hofmann. Immersion in this intensive master-student environment and life in another culture with proximity to European art collections became a watershed in her life. Focusing on painting, she remained in France for six years, living in the south of France, Lyon, Strasbourg, as well as Copenhagen.

Exposure to artistically compelling European cinema led her back to New York City where she studied filmmaking at New York University. She began her career working as assistant editor for Al Pacino as well as cinematographer and editor for Gregory Colbert (Ashes and Snow) on his first film. This led to eight years in Paris in the film and television industry which culminated in her directing and producing the documentary film Silent Sentries, filmed in New York, edited in Paris, and broadcast on PBS. She then moved back to New York City and established an art studio on the Lower East Side, returning to painting as a means of creative expression. It was there, in a merging of her film and painting backgrounds, that she developed her innovative approach to video stills. After nearly 15 years of city life, she moved her home and studio to East Hampton, New York in 2004, where her work focuses on the primal forces of nature, in particular the sensuality of the female form, water and fog.