Janet Driver

 

Address:			91 Ernest Road · Wivenhoe CO7 9LJ
Telephone:			01206 822135
Email:			janet@janetdriver.co.uk
Website:			www.janetdriver.co.uk
			Painting

 

Description:

Come and enjoy a wide range of atmospheric oil paintings influenced by Monet’s love of light.

 

Commissions Taken • Work For Sale • Tuition Given

 

Open Studio Dates Available:

10/11/17/18 Sept

also by appointment

 

How to find this studio:

This studio is number 59 on the Open Studios Map

 

Further Information

 

Janet began painting in oils from her parent’s beach hut in Brightlingsea – but it was to be many years before she had the opportunity to study for a degree in Art. Her “day jobs” tended to overflow into evenings and weekends with scarcely time to sketch, let alone paint... though she did paint the “Madonna & Child“ (see brochure).

 

Eventually, with two children at school, she was able to take a degree in ‘Art for Community’ at Roehampton followed by Post-Grad Diplomas at Central St Martin’s College of Art & Design, where she experimented with acid etching into glass.  Her Commissions include a stained glass window on “Climate Change” for the Department of Life Sciences, Whitelands College, London.

 

Janet has enjoyed working in a wide range of media before concentrating once more on oil painting, developing various techniques according to the effect she wished to achieve.   Glowing colours, such as the red in her “Rabbouni”, “Darfur Madonna” and the more playful “Have some Madeira me dear” are the result of several glaze layers which give an almost glass-like depth and sheen.  A completely different effect comes from her love of Monet’s paintings, using opaque colours scumbled across one another to portray changing light and atmosphere. Whilst on holiday she was fascinated by the changing play of light and colour reflected in the Needles on the Isle of Wight at dawn, and painted several pictures with sunlight shining through mist and fog. Two of these were chosen for Exhibition at Quay Arts, Newport, Isle of Wight.

 

For many years Janet has been excited by the relationship between Art and Spirituality. She has led workshops, Quiet Days and Retreats using visual materials from all over the world to enable people to enter more deeply into a theme from a new perspective.

 

Janet now has a log-cabin studio in the garden where you will be welcome to view some of her oil paintings on canvas. These will include recent paintings of local views, and sailing boats competing in the Pyfleet races at Brightlingsea, together with more meditative paintings to sit for a while and enjoy.

 

[Sorry, no wheelchair access to the studio due to some deep steps and narrow pathway]