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Janette Kerr |
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Kerr is not somebody who makes meticulous studies of landscape. With a nod towards the Romantic tradition in landscape painting, her practice remains nevertheless contemporary and experimental. Beyond mere topography, Kerr's paintings embody responses to the elemental. Delighting in sudden and unpredictable changes in the weather, she is very much a painter of the British landscape - a foul-weather painter who enjoys being out in, and working from the landscape when it's wet, dark and moody. Charcoal drawings and paintings made on-site become the basis for larger work on canvas painted in the studio. Kerr's current preoccupation with the sea has taken her from the coasts of South Wales and Dorset (where she grew up), to the Isle of Skye, Northumbria, and the Ring of Kerry, Ireland. It was by the sea that she initially began to paint out doors - sitting on rocks close to the water and rapidly making small paintings on boards. In September 2004 a trip to Ireland sparked a productive period of painting. The work that emerged during this period reflect time spent walking and absorbing the landscape around County Kilkenny and the nearby coast,. Working in situ she produced a series of small paintings; these were painted mostly on Rinn Duáin, an exposed peninsular area on the south east coast. Others were made from the barns of the farmhouse she stayed in, whilst gazing up at the clouds and the large black crows flying constantly across the surrounding hills. Summer 2005 found her on the far north of the Isle of Skye, (leading to a series of paintings based on drawings made whilst crossing from Skye to Harris). During latter part of January 2006 Kerr was a resident artist at the Cill Rialaig International Art Centre/Retreat, situated on a small wild and windy peninsula on the edge of the sea in the Ring of Kerry, S Ireland. Back in her studio in Somerset she has since been working from the mass of paintings and drawings accumulated whilst roaming the hills and cliffs of Bolus Head. |
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| Ebb and flow 127cm x102cm Oil on canvas |
Waters wild 28cm x 37cm Oil on canvas |
Turbulent days 41cm x 102cm Oil on canvas |
Walking on Cnoc Breanail 40cm x 115cm Oil on canvas |
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| Cullernose Point 41cm x 102cm Oil on canvas |
Fields of fire VI triptych 76cm x 76cm Oil on canvas |
High tide 61cm x 61cm Oil on canvas |
A new day 35cm x 35cm Oil on canvas |
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| Go there alone 76cm x 76cm Oil on canvas |
Morning walk 76cm x 76cm Oil on canvas |
Suspended 76cm x 76cm Oil on canvas |
Burning the heather 43cm x 40cm Oil on canvas |
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| Just watching 40.5cm x 100cm Oil on canvas |
Sundown II 76cm x 76cm Oil on canvas |
Dawn 76cm x 76cm Oil on canvas |
Fields of fire VII 101cm x 101cm Oil on canvas |
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| Night disturbance 61cm x 122cm Oil on canvas |
Na Straghri Dubha II 60cm x 60cm Oil on canvas |
Fast flowing 45cm x 45cm Oil on canvas |
From the Hogs Head I 22.5cm x 26cm oil on board |
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| Watching the swell 18.5cm x 31.5cm oil on board |
Evening sea 28cm x 42cm oil on board |
Close to the edge 16.5cm x 33cm oil on board |
Nightfall 39.5cm x 49.5cm oil on board |
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| Incoming wave 21cm x 33cm oil on board |
Sea mist 20cm x 28.5cm oil on board |
A high place 21.5cm x 45.5cm oil on paper & board |
Morning sun 20cm x 33cm oil on board |
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