Henriette Busch

Born in Berlin, Germany I have been interested in and surrounded by art all my life. My father, Eddy Smith*, was a German artist of English extraction who was well-known for his powerful, subversive copper-etchings and portraits of Berlin society figures in pre-and post-war Germany. And, although his paintings, etchings and drawings were always there for me to see, and I was always drawing, I did not really get serious about art until much later. This is because I was not in a position to get serious about my art until the advanced age of forty-five. I had travelled and lived in six different countries on four different continents (Europe, Africa, South America, and North America) before settling in England some twenty years ago. As a young mother and later as a working mother, I attended a variety of evening and extra-mural courses and summer courses to explore life drawing, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking and textile design. I always knew that I wanted more than this but it wasnt until 1999 that I finally took the plunge and quit my well-paying, high-pressured job as a software sales exec for an American company to enroll in a one year, full-time foundation course in Art and Design at the University of Hertfordshire. This exit...

1972-1974 - :Academy of Fine Arts, Paramaribo, Suriname
1999 – 2000: Full time Access Course in Art & Design, University of Hertfordshire
2000 – 2003: BA Fine Art Degree Course, University of Hertfordshire
May 2014: “Form & Abstraction”, St. Ives School of Painting, Cornwall
2015 – to present: Life Drawing classes at The St. Albans Art Society
May 2022 - Freedom in Painting course in Port Isaac, Cornwall with artist Ashley Hanson

Selected Exhibitions & Highlights 2016 – 2020:

January 2020 - Exhibition of 7 of my paintings at a private gallery, "Blickpunkt" in Berlin
January 2020 - Shortlisted for the Royal Society of British Artists Annual Show
March - August 2020 - Online exhibition at St Albans Museum in conjunction with University of Hertfordshire www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk/explore/exhibitions/hertfordshire-open-2020
March 2020 - Monthly Exhibitions at the Wynd Gallery Letchworth wyndgallery.co.uk
September 2020 - HVA Open Studio (Online) www.hvaf.org.uk/galleries/henriette-jetty-busch
October 2020 - Q&A Online Interview with FLUX Magazine www.thefluxreview.com/henriette-busch-qa
December 2020 – March 2021 - Letchworth Open @ the Broadway Gallery www.broadway-letchworth.com/studio-gallery
December 2020 - ING Discerning Eye - Online Exhibition www.ingdeexhibition.org/exhibition
December 2020 - New Gallery space in Singapore artwallst.com/artist/henriette-busch

January - February 2019 - Nude or Fully Clothed Exhibition, Nude Tin Can Gallery, St.Albans
April 2019 - Hertford Open at Courtyard Arts, Hertford
May 2019 - Solo Show of my big abstracts at the Gatehouse Gallery in Harlow
May 2019 - “St. Albans Exposed” Exhibition at the Nude Tin C...