About the Artist

Based in rural West Berkshire Jean paints and draws from life, from memory and from her imagination. She refuses to be tied to any one style and is unconcerned with exact appearance. She exploits all the qualities of her chosen materials in her quest to reveal the essence of her subject.

Currently she is using painting and drawing to explore environmental issues. Landfill, litter and air pollution have all inspired work.

Her latest work has widened to explore the philosophical questions surrounding change and nostalgia affected by architecture and planning.

Examples of her work can be seen on her website:

www.jeanwallis-artist.me.uk

Qualifications

1999

M.A., History of Drawing, Reading University.

1996

B.A. Hons., Art and Design, Winchester School of Art.

Awards

Jean has won several awards for her painting including, in 2000, the prestigious Spink-Leger (Newbury Spring Festival) Painting Prize.

Exhibitions

She has exhibited successfully with the New English Art Club at the Mall Galleries, London, in galleries throughout the South and in Wales. Her work can be found in private collections throughout the UK and in Australia.

She participates regularly in the Newbury and HADCAF Open Studio Schemes and has been a member of remarks since 2004.

2007

Insight Open Studios Group Exhibition, New Greenham Arts Centre, Newbury; 5 May - 3 June.

Open studios satellite exhibitions: Pastoral 2007, The Corn Exchange, Newbury, 3 May - 14 June.

Early and Later Works, West Berkshire Museum, Newbury, 5 - 31May.

2006

Beyond the View, Solo Exhibition, Vale and Downland Museum, Wantage,

(annually since 2000) Insight Open Studios Group Exhibition, New Greenham Arts Centre, Newbury.

2005

Open Studio and Group exhibition for HADCAF Community Arts Festival, Hungerford.

2004

Fountain Fine Art, Llandeilo, mixed exhibition, May - Nov

Art in the Garden, Group Exhibition, Jewells Farm, Stamford Dingley.

2003

Insight 2003 as above.

2002

Insight 2002 as above.

2001

Dance Connections 1, Group exhibition, New Greenham Arts Centre, Newbury.

Dance Connections 2, Group Exhibition, New Greenham Arts Centre, Newbury.

Refuge and Exile, Group Exhibition, Fairfields Arts Centre, Basingstoke, Hants.

2000

Millenium Exhibition, Open Studios Group Exhibition, New Greenham Arts Centre.

Spink-Leger Newbury Spring Festival Painting Prize, Desmoulin Gallery, Newbury,

Spink- Leger Gallery, Bond Street, London.

Transcending the Tree, Solo Exhibition, Newbury Methodist Church.

1999

Spink-Leger Newbury Spring Festival Painting Prize, Desmoulin Gallery, Newbury.

Small works for Azafaddy, Solo exhibition, The Bear, Cowbridge, South Glamorgan.

Virtual Visions, Two man show with Mike King, New Greenham arts Centre.

Teaching/Community Art

2006

The Big Draw, Family event and workshops, Vale and Downland Museum Wantage.

2005

Doodle Day, The Big Draw, Community Event, Stockcross, Berkshire.

2004

The Big Draw, Community Event, Stockcross, Berkshire.

2004

Big Art Week, Artist in Residence, John Rankin Primary School, Newbury.

2003-5

The Drawing Club at Stockcross C. of E., Primary School, Berkshire.

2003

Big Art Week, artist in Residence, Speenhamland Primary School, Berkshire.

Work Reproduced

'At About Three o'clock', charcoal drawing, Art and Christian Enquiry, No.21, 2000.

Published Articles

'Romney's House on Holly Bush Hill in Hampstead', Transactions of the Romney Society, Vol.10, 2005.

'Everything is Flux: George Romney By Himself', Transactions of the Romney Society, Vol.6, 2001

'The Mind and Soul of Romney's Art and the Poussin Connection', Transactions of the Romney Society Vol.4, 1999.