Jane Gardiner has a MA History of Art, University of London. She trained at the V&A and continues to lecture there. Jane was Senior Lecturer at Sotheby’s Institute of Art for 17 years, becoming a Deputy Director of Sotheby's, UK. She has also lectured for the National Trust, the Art Fund, London University, Buckingham University, l'Institut d'Etudes Superieures des Arts in Paris, a private women's college in Saudi Arabia, on cruise ships and at antiques’ fairs and interior design conferences in America.