Jeanette’s practice engages with the constant development within the urban environment. Fascinated by how the physical and atmospheric nature of our surroundings change our experience of these spaces she uses movement as a metaphor for this changing dynamic overtime. Her larger drawn works takes many months, evolving towards conclusions both physical and ephemeral. The resulting drawings are very large in size allowing the viewer to enter and become enveloped by it. Her monoprints are more direct and visually playful covering a range of subject matter. What unites them is the energy and excitement of an event unfolding.  

 

Jeanette has been based in Hackney Wick for twenty years, during this time she has charted the development of the Olympic site and its legacy on the park and the East Bank development.  Having gained Master degrees at both the Royal Academy Schools and Royal College of Art she has exhibited widely winning prizes at the Royal Academy Summer Show, Jerwood Drawing and Trinitity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prizes, amongst others. She has taught for many institutions and currently teaches at the Royal Drawing School in addition to running her own practical drawing workshops.Having been in many publications including the Guardian and Drawing Projects she is co-author of the recent commissioned publication City Sketching Reimagined, based on her practice.