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Jean Robinson RI

Over the Harbour Wall

Winter Sail

Jean 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.

Sh 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 in numerous exhibitions and has won prizes including:
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).