Jenny Toft

Jenny Toft is a Devon-based contemporary painter whose work explores the Architecture of Memory — how surfaces record, conceal and reveal the passage of time. An MA Fine Art graduate, her work has been featured in Saatchi Art’s curated selection of UK best-selling artists and is held in private collections internationally.

Informed by her hands-on restoration of early 20th-century buildings, Toft approaches the canvas as a constructed surface. Through layering, staining and controlled abrasion, she builds and disrupts the image, allowing traces of earlier states to remain visible.

Her paintings operate between control and collapse: structured fields are interrupted, surfaces erode, and material residue becomes a form of visual memory. Through this process, she investigates what endures — within architecture, landscape and the human condition.

MA Fine Art, Arts University Plymouth (2024)

BA (Hons) Fine Art, Plymouth University (2023)

Contemporary Arts Practice, South Devon College (2022)

Spanish Barn - Torquay

Levinsky Gallery - Plymouth

Gallery Eleven - Plymouth

Lupton House - Brixham

Old Mill Gallery - Torquay