Janie George

Janie George studied a BA in Printmaking at WSCAD, Farnham in the early 1980’s. She later took an MA at the Slade returning to work there as a teaching assistant. She taught printmaking at Bath Spa University for fourteen years before moving to Bristol where she currently works as a lecturer at Bristol School of Art. Her prints and paintings have been shown in Britain and internationally. Examples of printmaking are included in journals and publications. Janie is a regular exhibitor at the Royal West of England Academy open exhibitions and prints are available from Frank Gallery, Whitstable. She is member of the Jamaica St Studios. Janie George works across printmaking, painting and ceramics. Her work is an intuitive response to the blending of the natural world with human experience. Plants and their lives, their relationship with pollinators, photosynthesis and mineral growth are woven into the visual narrative. The patterning of insects, shells and rock are considered within the layered and imagined space of an image. Colour is an important as an emotional temperature. Selected palettes create a sensory climate for the motifs to settle into. Form is developed from ideas about generative processes and movement of water and air.