Jo Jenkins


Media: Fine Art Painting


Jo Jenkins, Fine Art painter in Oil and Watercolour. My paintings are exhibited in galleries throughout the UK and at the Affordable Art Fair in London as well as in collections abroad.


I am a retired art teacher who now paints full time. Travel and walking are my popular activities and the images and views I see give me inspiration to use in my paintings. Dramatic qualities caused by weather conditions always excite me. I am fascinated by situations where the shapes and colours I see can produce ambiguous effects, maybe due to weather conditions, such as light, rain or low cloud. I am not interested in producing a photographic likeness and some outcomes can result in abstract pieces.


I always work on a number of paintings simultaneously, responding to the qualities as they emerge. This gives me drying time for the oils but also enables me to develop the individual qualities in any particular body of work. I generally work in oil on a gesso based canvas, or occasionally in water colour, which I love the fluid qualities of. I enjoy going into my studio and breathing in the smell of my oil paints.


The paintings of Joan Eardley, Peter Lanyon and Barbara Rae are always an inspiration.


Member of Manchester Academy of Fine Art MAFA

2017 Cheshire Life Landscape Artist of the Year.


Contact: Website jojenkinsartist.me

Email jo@jojenkinsartist.me