The Organic Essence of Jane Teller Born as Jane Simon in the vibrant landscape of Rochester, New York, in 1911, the artist who would become known to the world as Jane Teller possessed a creative spirit deeply rooted in the tactile and the elemental. Her journey into the heart of abstraction was not merely a pursuit of form, but a lifelong exploration of the spiritual connections between humanity and the natural world. Before she ever touched the chisel or the wood plane, her hands were intimately acquainted with the grain and texture of timber through an apprenticeship in her father’s woodwo…