Jenni Robinson
Jenni Robinson is a self-taught landscape painter, printmaker and educator, based in Boom Studios in Bangor. Primarily working on acrylic coastal landscapes, her work draws inspiration from the North Sea Coast in her native Scotland and County Down in Northern Ireland, where she has lived since 2006. Jenni feels both places as home, and is fascinated by the similarities and differences between them, and the journeys in between.
These journeys have taken on extra significance since she became a mother in 2021 and experienced the isolation brought by a travel ban. Her work often now focuses on the importance of single elements in a journey or landscape, such as the innumerable patterns and colours of the ferry’s wake in the sea, or a cloud formation that captures the mood of a day, as well as the overall landscape vista.
Always inspired by Turner’s wild, innovative landscapes and the vivid, contrasting work of the Scottish Colourists, Jenni’s art incorporates loose mark-making and varied, bold paint application to achieve a true essence of a landscape, exploring the bones of its forms and the effect of light and weather. She works on a variety of surfaces to best suit the artworks, including aluminium/wooden panels or linen. They all bring a specific quality to the artwork upon them, influencing the tones and behaviour of the paint and its application. The aim is to not only make you feel that you are rooted in that scene, but to invite you to take a moment and consider the space as a link to all those who have travelled through it.
