Jenny Cowderoy

“I create expressive and original oil paintings, driven by a love of colour and pattern and all painted from imagination. 

Although inspired by nature and the inherent beauty and imperfection of the natural world, each piece is more of an emotional landscape than a depiction of reality. 

My work is in many private collections globally and has been exhibited in galleries across the UK.  My studio is in the centre of Bath and my work has become a firm favourite of interior designers and architects in the South-West. 

For me, a piece of art should be something you want to look at and live with for a long time. The best art describes the inner world and unique perspective of the artist; it changes and grows with its owner over time and takes on meaning from the people and home it lives in.”

Jenny’s work is focused on using abstraction to depict the beauty of the imperfect and the impermanence of life and nature. Landscapes, river and water scenes, still lives and portraits all represent the balance between beauty and decay, the transformation inherent in nature, in all of us.

Long influenced by Japanese art and, in particular, the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi, Jenny delights in the beauty of the old over the new, of autumn over summer, in real life, in true character and unpolished reality. Her process involves repeated manipulation and transformation of the works until they are beautifully imperfect.