Artists
Jenny Graham
Jenny Graham
Jenny Graham paints the landscapes around her of Devon and Somerset and further afield of Cornwall and Hampshire. Her smooth-surfaced, controlled oil paintings relate a specific interpretation of the countryside; through her eyes we see pattern and form crystallised from the haphazard arrangements of land, water and buildings of the general view. Attracted by both the timelessness of land forms and the more recent marks of human intervention, field patterns, roads and buildings; she blends the two seamlessly into a vision of a harmonised landscape.
On site Jenny makes quick sketches and notations on colour, time of day, weather and location. In the studio this information is combined with her emotional and visual recollection of the place and pared down to simple shapes side by side, to broad areas of colour and to sweeps of light and shade through which she relates to us the rhythms of the landscape.
Exhibition: Growing Gains 1 May - 12 June 2010
