Jenny is preparing for her fourth show at the Goldmark gallery next April ,2023. There will be new works from trips to Greece, Cornwall, Wales, Suffolk and her home county of Leicestershire, especially its woods and hedgerows.
The theme of the moon is still developing, together with a new theme of wild flower borders. There will also be some still life paintings and collages.
Jenny’s solo exhibition at the Goldmark Gallery celebrates her 70th year and 50 years as an artist. She has set herself the task of completing 70 paintings for the occasion. She has a few in stock already so not quite as tough as it sounds! it opens on Saturday 19th September and ends on October 18th 2020. Please contact the Goldmark Gallery to be put on the mailing list.
This is Jenny’s studio wall in March. She has been experimenting with painted paper collages using still life drawings done thirty years ago as source material. John’s pots have made an appearance too.
Jenny has made a new film about her life and work with her filmmaker son, Alex J. Wright, this year. You can find it on the Home page.
It is called Keeping an Eye Open and contains footage of her working in her studio and on location. She talks about her influences, her sources of inspiration, some of her unique mixed media methods and her thoughts on the joys and trials of being a painter.
Jenny had a solo show at the John Davies Gallery, Morton in the Marsh, in October 2016.
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The show was organised in conjunction with the Goldmark Gallery, Uppingham, which is her sole agent.
Jenny was the guest of the three Grumpy Old Women, Kate Robbins, Jenny Eclair and Susie Blake, who were performing at De Montfort Hall in Leicester recently. Susie Blake is a collector and bought her first Grevatte in 1975! She kindly invited Jenny and John to the show with drinks in the dressing room afterwards.
Jenny’s solo show which opened on Saturday March 21st 2015 at the Goldmark Gallery in Uppingham was almost a sell out!
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Below is a photo of Jenny holding her recent twenty-five-foot-long drawing of a hedge. Sections of it are now being sold at Goldmark.
Jenny had five news works in a mixed show at Cambridge Contemporary Art on the theme of “Woodlands.”
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First snow
Jenny had a very successful first solo show at the Goldmark Gallery in Uppingham and over half her exhibited paintings were sold. Her themes included trees, still life, the sea, sunbathers, heads and crowds. Some of the remaining work, together with several new pieces, can be seen at the gallery. Visit www.goldmarkart.com for information and to sign up for their newsletter.
Objects on a checked table cloth
The New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, purchased these two paintings for their permanent collection following her residency and exhibition there in 2010, “A Painter’s Progress”.
After Kollwitz
After Gilman
An exhibition at Cambridge Contemporary Art, 6 Trinity Street, Cambridge of new work completed over three years. www.cambridgegallery.co.uk
Jenny’s work was beautifully complemented by ceramics made by her husband, John Wright www.johnwrightpotter.co.uk
Woodland reflections
Jenny had a two venue exhibition in Leicester, her home city, entitled “A Painter’s Progress’’ at the New Walk Museum and Art Gallery and at the Attenborough Arts Centre (previously Embrace Arts) at Leicester University.
The exhibition at New Walk Museum featured a body of work made by Jenny in response to paintings in its permanent collection and completed during her 18 month residency there 2008/10.
It included pieces inspired by several different artists including Peter Doig, Harold Gilman, Kathe Kollwitz and Evelyn Williams. The works of the four artists listed were also on show.
The studies and working sketches were on display as if on the wall of her studio , alongside 18 of her finished pieces.
At the Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester University, there was a retrospective exhibition showing her development as an artist over 35 years. Works were borrowed back from public and private collections, including a collection of celebratory cards sent to friends and family over the years.
A film, "A Painter's Progress", was made especially for the exhibition by Alex J. Wright, Jenny’s son.
“In my opinion this is some of the most inspiring artwork exhibited in Leicester for quite some time. Jenny Grevatte is always in complete control of her materials, with stunning results.” – Leslie GoodwinArt Critic of the Leicester Mercury July 29th 2010
