Jenny «Last» born 1971
Education
ADVANCED CERTIFICATE OF ART AND DESIGN 1988-1989
Moorabbin College of TAFE - Painting under Howard Arkley
ASSOCIATE DIPLOMA IN ART 1990-1991
Melbourne College of Decoration - Visual Merchandising
Selected Exhibitions
2014 ‘Sundays’ Manyung Gallery, Sorrento, Art Red Hill, Red Hill
2013 ‘Southern Light’ Solo Exhibition, Gadfly Gallery, Dalkeith, Perth.
Group Exhibition ‘Winter Landscapes’, Gallery One Southport, Gold Coast.
‘Cloud Ballads’ Solo, Manyung Gallery, Sorrento, Vic. Art Images Gallery, Norwood, Adelaide.
2012 ‘The White of the Cloud’ Solo Exhibition, Gadfly Gallery, Dalkeith, Perth.
Gallery One, Group Exhibition, Southport, Gold Coast.
Group Exhibition, Manyung Gallery, Mt Eliza, Vic.
Artist, Canterbury Art Exhibition, Canterbury, Melbourne.
2011 ‘Tis the Season’ Group Exhibition, Gadfly Gallery, Dalkeith, Perth.
Group Exhibition, Manyung Gallery, Mt Eliza, Vic.
Solo, Exhibition, Art Images, Norwood, Adelaide.
Melbourne (Manyung Gallery)
2010 Group Exhibition Manyung Gallery, Sorrento.
Sydney Art Fair (Manyung Gallery)
Art Fair (Manyung Gallery) Manyung Gallery, Mt Eliza, Vic.
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2009 Group Exhibition, Manyung Gallery, Mt Eliza, Vic.
Sydney Art Fair (Manyung Gallery)
Manyung Gallery, Mt Eliza, Vic.
2008 Group Exhibition Manyung Gallery, Mt Eliza, Vic.
Sydney Art Fair (Manyung Gallery)
2007 Group Exhibition Manyung Gallery, Mt Eliza, Vic.
Sydney Art Fair (Manyung Gallery)
2006 Group Exhibition Manyung Gallery, Mt Eliza, Vic.
Sydney Art Fair (Manyung Gallery)
2005 Group Exhibition Manyung Gallery, Mt Eliza, Vic.
Group Exhibition Manyung Gallery, Mt Eliza, Vic.
Sydney Art Fair (Manyung Gallery)
2004 Group Exhibition Manyung Gallery, Mt Eliza, Vic.
Art Shed Gallery, Red Hill, Vic
2003 Group Exhibition Manyung Gallery, Mt Eliza, Vic.
The
Jenny Riddle
Biography
Jenny Riddle's commitment to painting is driven by the pastoral land and sea
that surrounds her on Victoria’s beautiful Mornington Peninsula.
The low ambient Southern light from this region, is captured in Riddle’s work
with her sublime shrouds that soften and filter the clarity from the land. It’s
the subtle and evocative nature of this light that Riddle has characterised and
incapsulated within her work.
Drawing on the values ascribed to Nature as described by the great Romantic
landscape artists of the nineteenth century, Riddle maintains that there’s a
deep, emotional element connecting Man with Nature. In essence, Riddle’s aim
is to heighten one’s love and emotion for the natural world. It’s within her
personal relationship with the land that she is able to convey the lyrical charm
and beauty that one feels in its presence.
‘Natures ability to heighten the senses has long been my motivation to paint.
From empirical observation, I’ve explored my emotional connection with the
pastural land and the ever changing climatic elements that enrich the Southern
landscape. Rain, fog and mist gently obscure the horizons, veil the valleys and
dissolve the trees in its path. The vistas are transformed in a poetic fusion
between the land and the sky, offering a place of spiritual refuge, solace and
tranquility.
My quest is intuitive, a yearning from the heart that manifests itself into a much
needed expression.’
Jenny Riddle
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