About Jeannette

I have painted on and off since childhood, when I won a prize in a national school’s competition, but for years the need to have a reliable source of income and then a family have got in the way of becoming an artist full-time. I did find time to study painting and printmaking at evening classes at St Martin’s and to do a degree in History of Art at the Courtauld Institute, where I specialised in fifteenth century painters and their techniques. So, all was not lost and at least I learnt a lot about technique. 

In recent years I have been able to build a studio in my back garden in beautiful Sussex and paint almost every day. At first I wasn’t sure what to paint. And then I realised that given the charities I am involved with are all connected to nature and the countryside I should use that passion to inspire my paintings.  So now I paint landscapes, seascapes, and other nature subjects. 

I paint largely in oils, and mostly from photos I’ve taken myself. Some of my paintings have been exhibited locally in Sussex and Kent and as a result I have also received commissions.