Janey Hunt Somerset, United Kingdom

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Janey is a landscape painter, using charcoal, pastel and watercolour crayons. She is influenced by contours of the landscape, ancient monuments, historical field patterns and modern farming, old estate maps and archaeological drawings. Janey feels a tie to the land and landscape that she wants to portray through her artwork.

Janey starts with going out and exploring the landscape. Wandering, sometimes going to specific locations, also using OS maps and Google Earth, she sketches and takes photos, which are used as studies and aid-memoirs back in the studio. The basic drawing is made in charcoal then she relinquishes the studies and allows the picture to emerge as it will into varying stages of abstraction, allowing a play of mark making, texture, tone and colour. Janey likes to feel the medium and the paper to enable her to puzzle out the emerging picture. Janey graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2004 and achieved a PhD in Fine Art Practice from the University of Plymouth in 2011. She is busy with two solo exhibitions this year at Birdwood House, Totnes, Devon, UK, September and October at SpringCheltenham, Gloucestershire. Janey also volunteers as the Area Representative of Mendip for Somerset Art Works and for Totnes Image and Photographic Archive, she is also a member of Contemporary Markmakers in Totnes.