During World War I, research and trials took place on Orford Ness to find effective camouflage colour palettes and patterns on day and night flying machines, including painted aeroplane body work and wings. Experiments were largely based on observation, trial and error in relation to the landscape and viewpoints from above and below.  During Jane's residency, as part of the Research Art Lab programme, she spent three weeks painting in this strange landscape, observing and recording a contemporary seasonal colour palette of the vegetated shingle and marshland found below the horizon line.

The works were made en-plein air recording focused moments, observations and details of the colour palette, textures and forms of the vegetation and shingle of Orford Ness. They include one-to-one scale paintings of lichen forms, as well as views of fragments of the flat shingle and marsh landscape. The larger double-sided studies on paper became more sculptural as the paper was crushed and folded into organic forms that could be viewed emerging from the floor or wall.