OUR ARTISTS
Here are profiles of some of the 2D3D artists. Their work can be found on the Portfolio page.
JILL JENNINGS , ARTIST
Jill has always painted in an abstract way and in recent years has developed a very recognisable style in mixed media. She creates collages based on the rocks of her beloved Guernsey, taking the initial shapes and planes that she sees, using them to create images of great depth.
Born and raised in Adelaide, she trained as a thoracic physiotherapist. In 1951 she achieved her life-long dream of visiting the UK to visit relations in Guernsey.
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Having returned to the UK, towards the end of the fifties she decided that she did not want to continue her career in physio and a chance meeting with a BBC TV newsreader led to a job at Broadcasting House. From then on she had a variety of jobs, including two years in a Mayfair art gallery, interspersed with visits to Australia, until she retired.
She also took a course in History of Art at London University and was able to spend more time painting.
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Jill tries to get back to the island twice a year and it was on one of her visits to St Peter Port that she attended a lecture given by Anthony Gormley. He was on the island to supervise the installation of his Insiders cast iron sculptures on Castle Cornet and she bumped into him the next day while out sketching. To Jill’s delight he invited her to sit with him and they discussed his work at length.
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“My mother was a good watercolourist and I’ve painted since I was a child,” says Jill. “After I stopped being a physio I did contemplate going to art school, but lost my nerve. I would paint every day if I could and now feel that I have found my niche and will continue as long as I’m able to pick up a pen or paintbrush.”
CLARISSA RUSSELL : ARTIST
Clarissa Russell has been established for more than 30 years as a renowned professional Artist. She studied painting and etching at the prestigious Slade School of Fine Art in London after which she lived and worked in Italy for several years and the clear light and bright colour have been a life long passion. She enjoys working in all media and has a wide variety of subject matter that includes portraiture, still life and landscape. Exhibiting widely both at home and abroad has led to regular invitations to submit work in galleries including the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and the Pastel Society in London. Examples of her work can be also found in private collections internationally.
She completed her Art Teacher's Diploma at London University and also studied restoration under the expert tuition of John Hulme the President of the Restorer's Guild. Frequently asked to give demonstrations and criticisms at art societies all over the south of England, she has also been much in demand to run popular and well-attended courses, workshops and summer schools in a variety of different disciplines.
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She exhibits as part of the Hampshire Open Studios every August. For studio viewings outside this event, please contact her directly.
KAREN EAMES: ARTIST AND MULTI-MEDIA CREATOR
Karen Eames is a landscape artist based in Chandlers Ford in Hampshire. Whilst she developed a professional career in nursing she longed to paint and study art. She achieved her lifetime dream with the opportunity to study Fine Art at Winchester School of Art and Design graduating with a first class honours degree in Visual Art in 2004, and then completed a Masters in 2007.
Karen’s passion is painting and it continues to develop, her work is often expressive, dreamlike and captures a sense of place. She enjoys working across media, often incorporating cold wax medium which gives layers of colour, texture and form.
The layers relate to her personal visual experiences of everyday life and experience. She describes her painting having a more intuitive approach, which she develops through self reflection and spending time immersing herself in the landscape. She works in sketchbooks on site and completes the paintings in her studio. She also combines teaching with her practice specialising in art for wellbeing which includes painting ,drawing and mixed media techniques, Karen draws on observations and her memories. Building layers of oil, cold wax and mixed media to provide a sense of place - excavating layers of paint. Taking into account The cultural construct of a place, human identity and her own attachment to a landscape.
“Landscapes and skies are often overlooked, they surround us and yet can be missed as we are caught up in our busy lives, I sketch on site, I like the idea they are part memory and part real. I have an intuitive approach to painting preferring to explore the colours of dreams rather than reality” They become part real and part of my dreamscape. They allow me to free myself from the reality of the everyday”
Her work is in collections worldwide.
ANGELA ANSON : ARTIST
Angela prefers to make paintings that have some connection with the coastal area near to where she lives.
Her way of working is to gather as much information as she can, using
different mediums, and then work through a series of ideas and processes that will be the source of inspiration for a final painting.
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JACKIE GREEN : ARTIST
Jackie obtained a Diploma in Fine Art at Southampton Institute of Higher Education in 1993 and have exhibited continuously since then.
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Jackie's main interest has always been in Still Life but portraying this in a contemporary way has been an ongoing challenge. She works in acrylic and mixed media and ambiguous hints of Still Life motifs can emerge.
The juxtaposition of these may allow for varying degrees of abstraction to evolve in the final image.
RACHEL HUNT : ARTIST
Rachel's paintings are about colour. They are also about landscape. Some, like her most recent recent paintings are about internal landscapes, about being closed in, barriers. These probably stem from the restrictions of Covid, not being able to escape either
physically or mentally.
Earlier landscapes, though, are of places visited, striving to evoke a sense of place, not in photographic terms but trying to conjure up the atmosphere and my feelings about this place.
FRANCES MASON : ARTIST
Frances works mainly in Acrylic, Mixed Media and Printmaking.
She also enjoys making small collaged artist books using her prints and works on paper.
Her work is concerned with the New Forest, where she has lived for most of her life and where she walks every day. Although she sketches out on the forest, she uses the sketches and
photos to inform her memory, rather than paint directly from them.
To her her work is an almost spiritual response to the light, the colour and atmosphere of the Forest, with layered images and luminous windows taking her into the secret places of this special place.