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FOSSE GALLERY
The Manor House
The Square
Stow on the Wold
Gloucestershire GL54 1AF
THE JOURNEY : NEW WORK BY JENNY WHEATLEY RWS NEAC
Sunday 9 to Saturday 29 February 2020
The Fosse Gallery are holding the first solo show of renowned British painter Jenny Wheatley RWS NEAC from Sunday 9 to Saturday 29 February 2020 at The Manor House, The Square, Stow on the Wold, Gloucestershire GL54 1AF.
The exhibition is entitled ‘The Journey’ and comprises around 50 paintings, all for sale, in the region of £1,000 to £6,000.
Subject matters range from exotic Indian palaces to the Highlands and islands of Scotland in search of the perfect ‘wee hut’. Jenny Wheatley is drawn to the more remote parts of the world, hence her preferred hunting grounds of Scotland, Cornwall and India’s Rajasthan and Thar Desert.
When Jenny started out as an artist she painted ‘en plein air’ working in front of the subject. Increasingly nowadays her work is heading towards trying to create the ‘flavour’ of the place and she has developed a way of working from drawings, written notes and memory as well as paintings done in situ.
As a result, her paintings capture the essence of the place or moment describing a mood, an idea or a simple joy of character and place. Jenny’s work encompasses the emotive use of colour to convey her personal response to places of times of importance in her life and she is drawn equally to the clarity she finds in the Highlands of Scotland, although more muted, to the vibrancy of India.
“I love the whole process of painting – from my reaction to the subject through each application of paint to surface, I am constantly striving to evoke the taste, smell and essence of place, rather as I would imagine a musician trying to find the exact combination of notes that captures memory” says Jenny Wheatley of her work.
Born in 1959, Jenny Wheatley trained at West Surrey College of Art & Design gaining a BA Hons in Fine Art Painting/Printmaking in 1981. One of her paintings was chosen by Grayson Perry to be part of the 250th anniversary of the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy last year. Also in 2018 Qindao Museum in China bought four huge paintings as part of their national collection.
The complete exhibition can be viewed on-line at www.fossegallery.com from mid January. Opening hours are Monday-Saturday, 10.30am-5.00pm
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