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)

Exhibitions

The Shetland Gallery, Yell, Shetland, May - October, 2025

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

Royal Scottish Academy 199th Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh, May 3 - June 8, 2025

Work held by

Kilmorack Gallery, By Beauy, Inverness-shire

Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh