Jenny Wheatley RWS NEAC

Jenny Wheatley is a leading member of both the New English Art Club and the Royal Water-Colour Society. One of the most distinctive of watercolourists, she produces equally fine work in oil and mixed media. Her work is often characterised by a variety of strong coloured pattern worked over the entire surface with sophisticated and playful effect.

Jenny compares the act of painting to a process of nature, which transforms and overwhelms, such as drifting off into water on the richness of a tropical rainforest. Such a comparison reconciles any contradiction Jenny has found between painting as a mode of representation or painting as an arrangement of colour and sensuous materials.

Painting is a compulsion for Jenny, an activity as necessary as eating or sleeping. She thrives on intuition and practice rather than on intellect and theory.
 
Believing that all experience is educative, she is willing to learn by her mistakes and has been happy to pass her accumulated knowledge on to others in the concentrated atmosphere of workshop and summer school.

Jenny has exhibited in the Scottish Academy, the Royal Academy and the West of England Academy. She regularly has work at the World of Watercolours, the International Art fair at Olympia and the Chelsea Art Fair, as well as work in several London, Scottish and provincial galleries. She has shown in Tokyo, America and Malta, and has works in the collections of HM Queen Mother, the Institute of Education, British gas, Pace Petroleum and St.Thomas’s Hospital.

Exhibtions Include

RA Summer Show
Royal Scottish Academy
Scottish Gallery
Royal West of England Academy
World of Watercolours
British Contemporary watercolours
International Contemporary Art Fair, Olympia
Works on Paper
Chelsea Art fair
Athena Art Awards
Hunting Group Art Prize
Institute of Education
Bourne Gallery, Reigate
Christies Contemporary Art London/Tokyo

Richmond Hill Gallery
City Gallery, London
Valetta City Museum, Malta
Henley Regatta
Chris Beetles Galleries ltd,
Wykeham Gallery, Stockbridge
Lemon Street Gallery, Truro
Nevill Gallery, Canterbury
NEAC
Pattisson Gallery, London
Gorstella Gallery, Chester
Royal Watercolour Society
Bohun Gallery, Henley
Barnie’s Place, C.U., USA