compiled by Jane Stroud
Jenny Wheatley Slipway – Portloe, watercolour on paper, 10×12in (25.5×30.5cm)
Jenny Wheatley’s solo exhibition at the Llewellyn Alexander Gallery promises an explosion of colour and bold brushwork. Focusing on a trip she made to Rajastan and the Thar desert at the beginning of 2017, the exhibition will include paintings in oils, acrylics and watercolours resulting from her travels, conjuring up all the intoxication of those exotic locations, mixing them up, and putting them back together in works that take you on a journey with her. As well as India, there are paintings inspired by trips to Cuba and the architecture of Havana, and the bright Mediterranean palettes of Spain and Cyprus. Closer to home, the temperature cools with a number of paintings of Cornwall and Scotland, featuring boats and harbour scenes and landscapes glimpsed through the frames of interior windows. Jenny will be well-known to The Artist readers through her many articles and TV appearances. She will be writing for The Artist magazine later in the year on the theme of working away from the subject.