EXTREMES AND INSTABILITIES

Janette Kerr likes a good storm - especially if it involves huge breaking, crashing waves. A painter deeply embedded in place, working at the interface between land, sea, and historical experience, she’s been called the ‘best painter of the sea in these islands’ (Brian Fallon, Chief Critic of the Irish Times).

‘..the energy in Kerr’s work reflects the power of nature itself, particularly with regard to her wayward scrawling, cutting, and dragging into her painted surface….’, (Ian McKay, State of Sea catalogue, Art North Projects 2020)

Attaljos(daybreak) oil on gesso panel 8"x8"

NEWS

I am taking part in OPEN STUDIOS in Somerset from September 13th - 28th. My studio in Coleford, Somerset will be open to visit at the weekends (Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays 11am-5pm). You can download an online catalogue by scanning the QR code

Exhibitions

The Shetland Gallery, Yell, Shetland, have just received six new paintings from me.

Clifton Contemporary Gallery, Clifton, Bristol: March - September, 2025

I’ve just given the Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh a set of new panitings - these should be in their website soon

I have four paintings in the 172nd Annual Exhibition at the Royal West of England Academy of Art, Clifton, Bristol: 06 September - 28 December 2025

Work also held by

Kilmorack Gallery, By Beauy, Inverness-shire