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Jenny Hirst

Jenny lives and works from her studio in Alderley Edge Cheshire. She has been painting professionally since completing a foundation diploma in Art and Design in 2002 after running her own interior design company for 9 years with a former colleague. She has, during that time been exhibiting and selling her work in various galleries in Manchester, Cheshire, Derbyshire, North and South Wales and the Lake District. She has also exhibited and sold work at the Manchester Art Fair in 2007 and Battersea Art Fair in May 2008. Jenny says of her work: “Much of my work is landscape based – inspired by my travels in the UK and abroad. I am interested in rural and urban landscape and particularly the influence of manmade structures and buildings on the natural landscape. I try to incorporate interesting textures into my work by the overlaying of paint and collage and also the rubbing and scraping away of paint to reveal layers beneath. I aim to capture the essence of a place – an emotional response rather than an accurate representation. Thus my paintings which begin from a photograph, sketch or a memory often take on a life of their own led by the medium and the method of applying the paint. I have been influenced by painters such as John Piper, Scottish artist Barbara Rae and Welsh artist David Tress and the great painter Turner.