Jenni Robinson
As a Studiomate…
Jenni Robinson is a self-taught landscape painter, printmaker and workshop facilitator, based in Boom Studios in Bangor. Also a member of Seacourt Print Workshop, her art begins in a sketchbook and you’ll often catch her scribbling away along the North Down Coastal Path.
In recent years Jenni’s work has taken a more abstract focus, as she takes the sketchbooks back to her studio to create paintings inspired by the wider vistas, but also abstracted elements of the landscape such as pebbles, negative spaces, plantlife and rock structures.
She has come to define her work as a reflective process, as the past decade has seen various personal changes including being widowed at 31, moving home, relationships and becoming a mother. The abstract work is more intuitive and allows for thoughts and memories to arrive and be processed thorugh the mark-making. Recognising that this connection has become a settled process, Jenni is now starting to make projects that process or respond to an intentional theme, using significant places as a platform to work from.
As a Workshop Facilitator…
Jenni has been delivering art workshops in various settings since 2018.
As well as running the Creative Days Sketch Walks, and sessions in Landscape Painting, she is experienced in providing an introduction to linocut printmaking, observational drawing and visits local art groups and schools to provide demonstrations.
Jenni has worked with/for various organisations including:
Morrow Communications, Kings Trust, Young Enterprise, Monday Painters, Bangor Art Club, Kilmood Art Club, Ards & North Down Borough Council, Open House Festival and more.
Jenni’s workshops are skills-based, rather than paint-along, equipping you with the techniques to confidently compose and construct paintings both within your class and under your own steam at home. You may focus on composition one week, for instance, and colour mixing another, always in the format of completing an exercise then using it to make a painting. Classes are suitable for beginners and those looking for a skills refresher/introduce acrylic paints to their practice.
