Janice Walton
Contemporary Artist- Burgh Island and much more
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Janice Walton - Biography
Janice Walton trained at Dundee’s Duncan of Jordanston College and at Edinburgh Art College. Having three children in her mid twenties she then did mainly commissioned work and private teaching. When she moved to Surrey in the mid-eighties she undertook much more teaching and studied the human form in great depth, working intensively from the model.
Janice’s expertise for many years was in Pastels but recently she felt the need to devote all of her time to the development of her own individual work which is now also in oils. Her subject matter has moved from almost exclusively the human form into the world of still life and recollections of past experiences. Her style has developed into expressionistic constructivism, with a strong sense of colour and balanced composition reflecting the many hours of exploratory drawing she has always done. Regular trips to South Africa have resulted in original interpretations of wildlife imagery. Having moved to a house by the sea in South Devon a number of years ago, seascapes and local landscapes – in particular Burgh Island and the Hotel -are now part of Janice’s repertoire.
Exhibitions
- Connoisseur Gallery, Crawford Street London.
- Hyde Park Gallery, London
- Royal Portrait Society, Mall Galleries, London
- Atrium Gallery, Whitley’s, London.
- The Orangery Gallery, Holland Park London
- Fire and Iron Gallery, Leatherhead
- Figurative Artists’ Gallery, Twickenham (two person show)
- Watts Gallery, Compton, Surrey (solo show)
- Robert Phillips Gallery, Walton on Thames.
- Weybridge Library
- Windsor Street Gallery, Chertsey
- The Gallery, Virginia Water. (Including 4 solo shows)
Exhibitions - Continued
- Gallery 17, Beckenham
- The Cultural Centre, Wassenaar, The Netherlands (solo show).
- Deutschen Apotheker- und Ärtzebank, Göttingen, Germany (solo show).
- Inspires Gallery, Oxford
- Mayne Gallery, Kingsbridge, South Devon
- Kaya Gallery, Barbican, Plymouth and Totnes
- Delamore Gallery, Cornwood, Ivybridge, UK
- Ghuba Gallery, Hout Bay, South Africa
- Brownston Gallery, Modbury, UK
- Harbour House Gallery, Kingsbridge, UK
Awards
- Art prize in final year of School.
- Travel Award in Second Year Art college.
- Diploma of Art from Edinburgh College of Art.
- City & Guilds Adult Education Teaching Certificate.
Collections
- Works in collections in Great Britain, South Africa, The Netherlands, Germany, Japan, and The United States.
- Numerous commissioned works throughout career including child and animal portraits, and landscape views.
- Major Installation “The Bathers” for the Burgh Island Hotel, South Devon - Autumn 2005.
- New sign for the Pilchard Inn, Burgh Island – June 2012