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)

NEWS

The Open Eye Gallery - On a Small Scale Online 2025 Launching Thursday 20th November at 11am

I have four little paintings on paper that will be available online at £260 each (make great Christmas presents`!)

Bath Society of Artists 120th Annual Exhibition

My small painting Houlma Water oil on gesso panel - is now in this show

Exhibition dates: Saturday 18th Oct 2025 - Saturday 10th Jan 2026. Venue: Victoria Art Gallery, Bridge Street, Bath BA2 4AT. ( www.victoriagal.org.uk for opening times & ticket prices.

172nd Annual Exhibition at the Royal West of England Academy of Art, Clifton, Bristol.

Four of my paintings are in the exhibition. Dates: 6 September - 28 December 2025

Visual Arts Scotland’s Biennial Exhibition 2025 - The Thread That Pulls

I’ll be delivering a large drawing to the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh for the exhibition which opens 6th December 2025 - 2nd January 2026 (Excluding 25th & 26th December)
Venue: Royal Scottish Academy Building Upper Galleries, National Galleries Scotland, The Mound, Edinburgh. 10am - 5pm (12pm - 5pm Bank Holidays)

My work is also held by the following galleries:

Kilmorack Gallery, By Beauy, Inverness-shire https://www.kilmorackgallery.co.uk/janette-kerr-paintings/

Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh https://www.openeyegallery.co.uk/artists/54-janette-kerr/overview/

The Shetland Gallery, Yell, Shetland https://www.shetlandgallery.com/janette-kerr

Clifton Contemporary Gallery, Clifton, Bristol: https://www.cliftoncontemporaryart.co.uk/janette-kerr