Jane Langley

Who is Jane Langley?

Jane Langley is a painter, teacher and environmentalist born in 1959. She is the CEO and Founder of the social enterprise company Cool it World Ltd. The company owns two websites, Cool it Vision and Blue Patch. Blue Patch launch will be summer 2014. Cool it Vision was previously known as Cool it Schools launched 2009, see below. She studied at The Royal College of Art, Camberwell, and Chelsea School of Art. She was an Abbey Scholar at the British School of Rome in 1993 and in 2008 a Visiting Fellow, at Goldsmiths, University of London, attached to the Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles. Jane Langley is a 2014 London Leader. Currently establishing an international environmental film competition and awards for young people under the Cool it Vision umbrella.

She is also a curator and one of the founders of The Pattern Lab, which was discussed on UK Radio 4 Woman's Hour in an interview titled "Exploding The Teardrop", a curatorial umbrella group that brings artists, filmmakers, musicians and people from different fields of practice, together to research concepts around fine art, textiles, pattern and craft.