Jennifer Rye

Born in Hertfordshire 1969.I have been painting for the last 25 years."A memory is what is left behind when something happens and does not completely unhappen". Psychologist E. De Bono. As a painter i'm concerned with landscape and its relevant facets and inherent aesthectics associated with it, both visual and otherwise, the landscape for me should be read and interpreted as per the function rather than mere visual appraisal.The focus on the relationship between landscape and various aspects of human life it touches, such as memories and human behaviour. Human existence is reflected in nature, from birth, death and rebirth of each generation.
This has been in the centre of our mythology and folklore for centuries.
My work explores the relationship between landscapes, memory and a sense of place. Some landscapes are very beautiful but have a very sinister past. We know that through history, the landscape itself has been a medium by which evil is veiled and naturalized.
This made me look personally at my own experiences in life, how you can look at a beautiful smile and behind that smile is a person who has struggled and suffered beyond belief.
The human condition is constantly sabotaging any kind of happiness and oneness in ...

I finished my B.A in painting in the early 1990s at Wimbledon School of Art in London.My teachers have been Prunella Clough, Michael Porter and Julia Farrer.I have also worked and exhibited in Montreal, Canada.For the last 15 years I have been painting in North Wales in my studio. I have had exhibitions in the Mall galleries, Oriel Mostyn Llandudno, Theatre Clywd, Mold and The 'little women' exhibition in Basingstoke, England and more.In the last few years I have been awarded my M.A at North Wales School of Art and Design. ,

Group Show Wimbledon, Bridge House, London SW19
Group show Wimbledon Library Gallery SW19
Group Foyer Show at Wimbledon School of Art Gallery
Group show The Mall Galleries, London SW1
Open show, Women in Action Nicht Gallery, Winslow, Bucks
Blaenau Ffestiniog Group Show
Group show Blaenau Ffestiniog Tour of Welsh Galleries including Cardiff
Print International Open Exhibition, Taiwan
Aberystwyth Open Exhibit
Four Paintings on Permanent Show, Pizza Express, High Barnet, Hertfordshire
Group Show Sodarco, 90 ouest, rue St-Paul, Montreal, Canada
Oriel Mostyn Open Llandudno, North Wales
Open show, Royal Cambrian Gallery, Conwy, North Wales
Theatre Clwyd Gallery Open, Mold, North Wales
Little Women Open Exhibition, Hampshire
Saatchi online Gallery
Open Exhibition Cork Street, Mayfair, London
Fabric of the Land, Scotland.
Solo show Chester.
Group show at the Royal Cambrian , Conwy .
Solo show New York