Jennifer Anderson

Painter working in oil on canvas, born in Glasgow in 1975

Jennifer Anderson is happiest when painting the people she wants to paint. It would therefore be wrong for me to describe her as a portrait painter, as such. She shies away from the more recognisable traits of her sitters: the perfect expression, the flattering stare. Instead, she focuses on the lost moments: the introspection, the joys and sadness. In their anonymity, the subjects on her canvases project a universal appeal, exploiting the full gamut of those human emotions with which we can all so easily identify.
Roddy Martine

1997 BA(Hons) Fine Art Painting from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007 The Arndean Gallery, Cork St London with Maclean Fine Art
2005 artLondon Art Fair with Maclean Fine Art
2003 artLondon Art Fair with Maclean Fine Art
2000 The Gatehouse Gallery, Glasgow
1998 The Gatehouse Gallery, Glasgow

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

The Royal Academy Summer Show
The National Portrait Gallery collection
The BP Portrait Award
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters
The Royal Scottish Academy
The Royal Glasgow Institute
The British Art Fair
The AAF, London and New York

AWARDS

The Royal Glasgow Institute David Cargill Award 2006
The Royal Glasgow Institute Strathearn Gallery Award 2006
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters HSBC Award for Young Painters 2005
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Arts Club Award 2005
The Lady Artists Club Trust Award 1998
The Ewan Mitchell Award for Figurative Painting 1997
The Watson and Philips Commission Award 1997
The George Duncan of Drumfork Travel Scholarship 1996

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