Jenny Wilson, Marine House

OUTER HEBRIDES

For some years we have had the pleasure of exhibiting the landscape paintings of Jenny Wilson.

For the first few years of our collaboration Jenny’s work reflected the landscape near her home in Leicestershire. She was not one for the panoramic landscape style but enjoyed the charm which simple compositions such as a field with a wildflower bordered hedge adjacent to an old barn could bring. Her joyous style using oil and palette knife created a true sense of being there. Unsurprisingly they proved consistently popular.

Wanting a change, Jenny with their two daughters and her husband Matt, who makes the fine frames in which the pictures “float”, and their two daughters, bought a croft on the remote and beautiful island of Great Bernera in the Outer Hebrides in the far North West of Scotland.

Crofting has largely changed from subsistence agriculture to arts inspired activity and tourist accommodation which the Wilson family have embraced as well as enjoying the company of four rescue horses and two dogs.

Jenny of course has established a fine new studio where she captures with evident delight and skill the light and drama she experiences in these special isles. With this inspiration, her whole landscape interpretation has gone up several gears!  Her paintings embody the emotional high Jenny feels in her new environment, stimulated by the splendid light and the sense of history all around you in this tough but rewarding and beautiful landscape.