Jane Covernton has recently been exploring using photography and text together to tell a different kind of story. She’s been a writer forever, first for a couple of years as a journalist in tv news. Then she went off to Jamaica with her portable typewriter and started writing novels. The first one was disassembled for parts. The next three she self-published under her own imprint, Calendula Farms. Over the years she wrote and published several books of poetry. She helped others write and publish their work. She produced Poetry Festivals and performed her work with musicians.

Then there came a time when she felt she had nothing to say that the world wanted to hear. She stopped writing for a few years. But she always carried a camera and took pictures as she moved about in the world, keeping her creativity alive. In 2019, she suddenly felt she did have something to say and wrote a little handbook of Instructions for the End Times. Her photography was an important part of that.

In 2020, she wrote a poem a day for Poetry Month and published them incorporated into photographs, first on Facebook, and then in the beautiful book, When We Became Plants: Pandemic Poems.

In 2020 she also produced a suite of 36 images called Water Prayers and Wikis using photography and text. This work is being shown in her Little Gallery in the Garden during the 2020 Sunshine Coast Art Crawl.

In 2021 she produced a new work called Becoming Human, using drawing, photos, photoshop and colour to make pictures, which she hung in The Little Gallery in the Garden, and then published along with a poem/essay in a book Becoming Human and on a website www.becominghuman.work

Jane Covernton lives in Roberts Creek, a small close-knit community by the Salish Sea on the west coast of Canada where she has a close relationship with the trees, the sea, the creeks, and the critters.