About Me

 

I am painting again since returning from a career break, my little one is now 3 years old… and we both enjoy painting together!

Nature has and always will play a part of my being able to process what is going on in the world all around me, and others in my life. Using the language of paint, collage, sculpture, photography or film, alone or in a mixed media format, allows me to play with shape, form, texture and colour through the energy of abstraction.

‘The landscape’ exists as a metaphor in my mind – a manifestation of where I am and what I see (physically), as well as how I am and what I’m experiencing (mentally). My ongoing physical and mental engagement with the autoimmune condition I live with everyday.

Inspired by both urban and natural environments, you can see the chaos as they sit side by side in my strands of work. The spirit embodied in these places and their connection to the people who live and use them excites me greatly. Therefore it makes sense that my art is an echo of all of these things and my expressive use of mark-making and colourful bold assemblages are a way of collectively combining both personal and external influences.

I’ve always said my work encompasses more than just what sits on the surface. Cracks and fissures exist seen and unseen, and are ready to bend and break if too much pressure is applied. This feels very relevant for the world we live in today.

 

Experience

2021-2023  Career break (now known as Jenny Catherall (was Drinkwater))

2021  Group Exhibition, Outside in Fundraiser, Chichester

2021  Lockdown 3.0 Photographic Story, Open Eye Stories, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool

2020  Group Exhibition, The Secret Postcard Show, Cupola Gallery, Sheffield

2020  Virtual Exhibition, Land:Mash (Original show cancelled)

2019  Group Exhibition, 20×20 Fundraiser, Hospital Rooms, London

2019  Group Exhibition, The Secret Postcard Show, Matlock

2019  Solo Show, ‘Spliced And Diced’, Vernon Gallery, Stockport

2018  Group Exhibition, Fusion, Green Door Artists, Brewery Arts Centre

2018  Solo Show, ‘Rose Tinted’ AIR Gallery, Altrincham, Manchester

2018  Group Exhibition, SIZE Matters, The World of Glass, St Helens

2018  Solo Show, ‘FAKE SCAPE’  The Storey, Lancaster

2017  Group Exhibition, Blowing a Gail, Womanstanley, Warrington

2017  Group Exhibition, Warrington Contemporary Photography Open

2017  Group Exhibition, Nasty Woman Wigan, Cross Street Arts, Wigan

2017  Twitter ‘Artwork of the Day’, Chiara Williams Contemporary Art, London

2017  Group online exhibition ‘Transpired’, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

2017  ‘Mono’ Group Exhibition, PS Mirabel, Manchester

2016  Residency & ‘A Natural Dis-Order’ Showcase Solo Exhibition, The Gallery at St Georges House,  Bolton, Manchester

2016  Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year (Heat 2 at Wray Castle, Cumbria)

2016  Artwork Studios & Gallery, Northwich, Group Open Exhibition

2015/16  Aintree Hospital, Liverpool, ‘ELEMENTS’ Solo show (Nov-Mar 2016)

2015/16  The Gallery at Bank Quay House, ‘MADE IN para:dise’ Solo show (Nov-Feb 2016)

2015  Paper Gallery, Manchester, Artist Residency

2015  ‘Shelf Life’ Group Exhibition, PS Mirabel, Manchester

2015  ‘A Temporary Surface’ One day pop-up solo show, Pyramid Arts centre

2015  MSB Exchange 2015 With Castlefield Gallery (M’cr), Bloc Projects (Sheff) & Extra Special People/Stryx (Birm) June/July/August

2015  Bankley Gallery, Manchester, ‘A Question of Landscape’ Solo show

2015  Group Exhibition, Liverpool Art Fair 2015

2015   ‘Host’ Group Exhibition, The Gallery at Bank Quay House

2015   ‘Perspectives’ Group Exhibition, Weaver Hall Museum, Cheshire

2014/15  Group exhibition, Yellow Door Artists, St Helens

2014   Group Exhibition, Frodsham Open

2014   Funky Aardvark – Chester Open

2014   Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival

2014   International group exhibition, Haihatus, Finland

2014   Group exhibition, Handels Gallery, Chester

2013   Group exhibition, Funky Aardvark gallery, Chester

Awards

2018  A-N Coaching Course Bursary with Relational Dynamics 1st

2016  Artist Bursary, Full Circle Arts, Manchester

Education

2020 – ‘Abstraction’, St Ives School of Painting

2017/2018 – ‘Introduction to Art Therapy’, Oxford College of Arts & Therapies

2016 – ‘Digital Photography’, Leeds College of Art, ‘Environmental Humanities – Remaking Nature’; ‘Exploring Animation’; Slade Summer School, London ‘Experimental Approaches to Landscape’; Yorkshire Sculpture Park; Brewery Arts, 2015; Cheltenham School of Fine Art, 2014; The Bluecoat, 2014; Hot Bed Press, Manchester; 2014 Neo-Artists, Bolton; 2013 Mid-Cheshire College, Fine Art Diploma; 2012/13 University College Chester, BA Hons  1998