Jean Robinson RI

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Jean Robinson was born and educated in Cardiff. She studied music and history in Nottingham, training as a teacher and she still teaches part time in Farnham, Surrey.  Jean began painting in 1987 when her youngest son started school. She had always shown an interest in art and started painting seriously a few years later with a group of artists who for several years were tutored by Mike Bernard R.I.

Jean paints mainly in a semi-abstract way using acrylics, watercolours, inks and collage. Her paintings are intuitive rather than literal and emerge from remembered images and shapes, with colour often being the starting point.

Music in many forms influences Jean's paintings - the bold and colourful ones seem to grow when listening to jazz and rock music and the mellow ones emerge with the classics!

She has exhibited at numerous exhibitions including:

 The Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours
             Royal Society of British Artists
             Royal Watercolour Society
             Society of Women Artists
             Affordable Art Fair, Battersea
             Chelsea Art Society
             Llewellyn Alexander Gallery
             Broadway Modern Gallery, Cotswolds
             Chichester Open Art Society
             Welsh Artist of the Year Exhibition
             R.I. Members Exhibition Fine Art U.K. Ledbury, 2006
             Postcards for Sick Kids Exhibition, Edinburgh, 2006
             Various local society exhibitions, NSPCC, Witley, etc.    

Jean's work is held by a number of galleries including Broadway Modern, Broadway and Fine Art UK in Ledbury. Some of her pictures have been reproduced as greeting cards for Marks & Spencer.

Her prizes include:

           John Blockley award for the best demonstration of a sense of place, texture and
           colour.  (R.I. April 2004);
           St. Cuthbert’s Mill Award for an outstanding watercolour. (R.I. April 2004);
           James Hockey award for painting (April 2003).

Jean was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours in April 2004.
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