I paint with half an eye on what is around me, but also simply by responding to an energy within me, an energy generated by what I feel, or smell, or taste, or actually imagine is around me when I am working outside, so my paintings are responses to something sensed or felt about a very particular place. Sometimes that feeling is taken to extremes. These paintings have been created in extreme conditions; they are far beyond mere topography, neutral reports of a place, they embody my responses to the elemental; echoing my immediate responses to the sound and silence, the observations of movement and rhythms of sea and wind, to changing light - advancing rain and mist, glancing sunlight, swelling and breaking waves, the merging of spray with air. I am interested in something less fixed, something more intangible, relishing sudden and unpredictable changes in the weather; I am a foul- weather painter - a painter not ‘of‘ or ‘about‘ the landscape, but in it.

 

 Janette M Kerr RWA

Solo Shows                       

2009 Origin Gallery, Dublin (Oct-Nov)

          Peripheral Visions - Cadogan Contemporary Gallery, London

2007 Edge - Hybrid Gallery, Honiton

         St Giles Gallery, Norwich

2004 Adam Gallery, Bath & London

2002 Stour Gallery, Shipston-on Stour

2001 Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, Bath

1999 Hartnoll Gallery, London

1998 Grizedale Centre Gallery, Cumbria

Group and Invited Shows

2009 

         Fine Art & Applied Art, Ballyduff House, Kilkenny Arts Festival 

         Blackbird Gallery, Kilkenny Arts Festival

         Irish art, Stour Gallery, Shipston-on-Stour (3 person)

         Around the British Coastline -Richard Hagen Gallery Broadway

         West Country Artists - Bowlish Gallery, Bowlish, Somerset

         Cadogan’s Country Art Show, Hampshire

         Workshop Wales Gallery, Fishguard

         Affordable Art Fair, London

2008

         Edinburgh Art Fair (Bowlish Gallery)

         Cadogan’s Country Art Show, Hampshire

         Night: A Time Between - Royal West of England Academy

         Affordable Art Fair, Battersea

         Summer Exhibition, Cadogan Contemporary

2007

        Earth - Rook Lane Chapel, Frome Art Festival

        Micro-Macro - Queens Street Gallery, Emsworthy, Hampshire

        Affordable Art Fair (Bowlish Gallery), Bristol

        Inspires Gallery, Oxford  (2 person)

        Alpha House Gallery, Sherbourne

        Around the Fort – South Cadbury

        Quartz Visual Arts Festival, Taunton

        Bowlish Contemporary Gallery, Bowlish

        Cadogan’s Country Art Show, Hampshire

        Sadler Street Gallery, Wells

        Stour Gallery, Shipston-on-Stour

2006 

         Around the Fort - South Cadbury

         Sadler Street Gallery Christmas Show, Wells

         Alpha House Gallery Christmas Show, Sherbourne

         Fifty Wessex Artists - Brewhouse Theatre, Taunton 

         Quartz Visual Art Festival, Taunton 

         Somerset Art Week - open studio

         Celtic Influence - Stour Gallery, Shipston-on-Stour

         Drawing Room - Royal West of England, Bristol

2005

         Fairfax Gallery, Tunbridge Wells

         Quartz Visual Art Festival, Taunton

         The Lie of the land - Byard Art, Cambridge

         Seven painters at Asthall Manor - Pierrepont Fine Art

         An Irish Connection - Stour Gallery, Shipston-on-Stour

         C2 Gallery, Stoke Hammond

         The Gallery Upstairs, Henley-on-Thames

          London Art Fair (Adam Gallery)

2004

       Somerset Art Week – open studio

       Affordable Art Fair Battersea (Stour Gallery)

2004 -2003

        London Art Fair, Chelsea (Pierrepont Fine Art)

2004 -2001                       

        Byard Art, Cambridge

        Mullan Gallery, Belfast

2003

        20th Century Art Fair, London (Adam Gallery)

        Maltby Fine Art, Winchester

        Into the Light - Hotbath Gallery, Bath

2003-2002                       

         Pierrepont Fine Art, Oxford

2003-2001

         Affordable Art Fair, Battersea (Byard Art)

2002

         Dorset landscape - The Old Warehouse Gallery, Dorchester

         Albany Gallery, Cardiff

2002-2000

         20-21st Century Art Fair, London (Anthony Hepworth)

         Art London Fair, (Anthony Hepworth Fine Art)

         Stour Gallery - Women Artists, Shipston-on-Stour                       

2002-1999                       

         Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, Bath

         Dublin Art Fair (Byard Art)

2001

        Glasgow Art Fair (Mainhill Gallery) Works on Paper

         London Art Fair (Byard Art)

         Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff

        Spring Art & Antique Fair, Olympia (Anthony Hepworth Fine Art)

2000

         London Contemporary Art Fair (Anthony Hepworth Fine Art)

         Collectors Pictures - Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, Bath

1998

          Viewpoints - Artsway, Dorset (invited artist)

1997

         A Month in Tuscany - Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield

 Selected Exhibitions

2007-1997

         Royal West of England, Bristol

2006

         Royal Academy Summer Show

2002/1998/97/95

     30th Laing Seascape & Landscape Annual Competition, Mall Galleries, London

2000  

     Hunting Art Competition, London

1997  

     Millfield Summer Show, Street

1996

     Cheltenham Annual Drawing Competition

 Work in collections

Royal West of England Academy Permanent Collection

Tallboys Bequest, Bristol

Victoria Art Gallery Print Collection (Bath), Grizedale Society  (Cumbria)

Colle Verde Art Trust, Tuscany

Private collections in UK, Europe, USA, SA, Norway

Awards

2003 Elected Royal West of England Academician

2000 Windle Trust Bursary

1999 David Murray Studentship Award, Royal Academy Schools

1996 Ruskin/Colle Verde Travel Bursary

1995 1st prize, Laing Landscape Art (SW)

Residencies

2010  The Booth, Shetland

2006 & 2008 Cill Riallaig, International artists & writers retreat, S Ireland

1999  In House: making & installing night works in two domestic houses. Bath Fringe Festival

1997 Grizedale Forest Art Fellowship, Cumbria

1996 Llangatwg Comprehensive School, Neath Valley (Art Council of Wales funded).

Publications

2008 Night: A Time Between, catalogue (editor and contributor)

2005/6/7 Entry in Who’s Who in Art, Hilmarton Manor Press

                      2006  Fifty Wessex Artists. Publisher: [Evolver] Books

 

2005  Representation & Indeterminacy: A Study of Night in Painting, PhD thesis

           

           Solo Show Catalogue, Adam Gallery

2000  In House Twice - Artists’ Book, Wild Conversations Press

1999  Art Review: The Painters Eye: Janette Kerr. March 1st,                    

1998  Landscape Research:Representation & Indeterminacy: Night in                                            landscape painting; Two Months in Darkness (Spring & Summer editions).                

Web sites 

www.janettekerr.co.uk

www.rwa.org.uk/memfrm.htm

www.somersetartweek.org.uk

www.uwe.ac.uk/amd/phd/kerrbiog.htm

web.ukonline.co.uk/bana/arti

Qualifications

PhD. (Practice-based, Fine Art) University of the West of England 2005

Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art, University of The West of England. 1999

 

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