JANE HENRY grew up surrounded by painting. She was trained as a painter and both of her parents are painters. Eventually growing to feel that she had come to take painting too seriously - that it was too grand a calling - she looked back to when she was very little and used to create things out of whatever she found. In order to feel that her art was honest she decided to return to that place.

A native New Yorker, born in 1965, Jane's works range from sculptures of twisted ballet dancers to quirky critters to fanciful if strange scenarios, presenting her individual take on the wonders and foibles of us all. The multimedia works are charming and puzzling, perplexing and delightful.

Henry's work as a gilder and restorer of antiques enamored her to the materials she uses and influenced her permutation into the three-dimensional. She began with elaborate boxes and dioramas, which were, in effect, stage sets for the figures she eventually began to fashion.

Jane Henry's sculpture has been shown in Manhattan at the National Academy of Design, the Schoenberg Center, G.W. Einstein Gallery, Atlantic Gallery and Ceres Gallery; in Dallas at City Hall Gallery; and in Provincetown at the Berta Walker Gallery.