Jenny Wheatley’s paintings give a sense of warmth and vitality to the viewer. One of the youngest ever elected members of the Royal Watercolour Society, she was initially best known for her works in water-based media. In recent years her large oils and acrylics have been widely collected both by the private and public sectors.

Graduating in 1981, Jenny was trained at West Surrey College of Art and Design in a combined painting/printmaking degree. She produces screen prints, etchings, monotypes and complex giclee prints that have the same sense of strong, close-tone colour and glow for which her paintings are known.

Much of her work is influenced by her frequent travels abroad, where she paints in situ and collects information and artefacts that appear in her larger, more formal studio paintings. She was sponsored by Christies Contemporary Art to travel and catalogue the changes of Polynesian to Melanesian culture, and was the artist/recorder on a trip with the joint British/Indian armies to Kashmir and Ladakh.

Jenny has exhibited in the Scottish Academy, the Royal Academy and the West of England Academy. She regularly has work at the World of Watercolours, the International Art fair at Olympia and the Chelsea Art Fair, as well as work in several London, Scottish and provincial galleries. She has shown in Tokyo, America and Malta, and has works in the collections of HM Queen Mother, British American Tobacco, the Institute of Education, British gas, Pace Petroleum and St.Thomas’s Hospital. Her main dealer is the Bourne gallery in Reigate, where she has major exhibitions every eighteen months, and constantly changing selection of gallery stock.

For the past two years Jenny has appeared as a regular Art Expert on Channel Four’s popular Watercolour Challenge programme. She appears in books such as Visions of Venice, and writes articles for various art magazines.