Jenny Smith

BIOGRAPHY

Jenny Smith is a Painter-Printmaker who lives and works on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. She gained a first class degree in Drawing and Painting from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and an MA in Multi–Disciplinary Print from UWE in Bristol.

Jenny’s work explores our relationship with memory, place and process and is an investigation into the definition of drawing, in its broadest sense. Over the years, she has investigated a number of different mediums to draw in, including, paint, mixed media, print and a laser cutter.

Currently she is exploring using the Hebridean sunlight as a drawing material through the medium of Cyanotype. Her “blueprints” are created by hand on the Island of Lewis and reflect her evolving relationship with the landscape she lives and works in.

Jenny has won numerous awards, including The RSA Award for Painting and Friends of RSA Travel Bursary with which she went on a research trip to Japan.

Jenny exhibits nationally and internationally in both group and solo shows. She is regularly selected to exhibit in the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, has shown in the Royal Academy Summer show in London and been shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize. Jenny has work held in public and private collections, worldwide, including the Tate Gallery and National Galleries of Scotland.