Jane Cochrane

Jane Cochrane trained as an architect at the Architectural Association in London. In that role she worked principally on existing buildings, first for a housing association and later as a conservation architect. She also taught at art schools, principally at Bower Ashton School of Art in Bristol and at the Central School of Art in London. She paints, draws, and sometimes makes ceramics as well. Together with her Greek-speaking husband, the lawyer Alec Kazantzis, she repaired an old house on Ithaca, an island she has been visiting since 1982. She has used one of her paintings for the cover of her book 'Odysseus' Island' and another for her new book 'Walking in the Footsteps of Odysseus: A Practical Guide to the Homeric Paths of Ithaca'. She recently also published a booklet on 'The Excavation at Agios Athanasios / School of Homer' to give the evidence from the archaeologist Thanasis Papadopoulos for the Palace of Odysseus on Ithaca, for which she wrote an introduction. For more information you can connect with her website at https://www.janeocochrane.co.uk/