Janet Jennings
Jennings began as a Color Field painter, working on canvas and linen, and maintained a studio at Waverly Studios in New York City. After moving to Amagansett in 1981, she switched her focus to landscape painting. She received her BFA from the University of Dayton and attended The Dayton Art Institute, Antioch College and The Art Students League.
Jennings has exhibited at numerous galleries on Long Island and New York City, including Gallery North, Elaine Benson Gallery, Hampton Road Gallery, Glenn Horowitz Gallery, Lizan-Tops Gallery, Mark Humphrey Gallery, Pamela Williams Gallery, folioest, Chase Edwards Gallery, and The New York Design Center. Her paintings are in numerous corporate and private collections worldwide.
Jennings is a member of the East Hampton Arts Council, and from 1993 to 1998 was the Chair of the Andy Warhol Visual Arts Preserve Program. She has taught at the Parrish Art Museum, Guild Hall and The Victor D’Amico Institute of Art. She currently has a painting studio in East Hampton and teaches oil and watercolor classes.
“I paint from memory, using sketches and photographs as reference, but informing the painting with everything I am thinking about in my life and the world at large. I use abstracted natural images for my narrative, communicating my emotional temperature through the use of color, shape and line. There is a strong spiritual influence in my work that accesses the sublime and the beautiful.” — JJ
ATLANTIC FOG, 2021, oil on canvas, 40 x 60 in
NORTHWEST HARBOR WINTER, 2021, oil on canvas, 48 x 48 in
Sea Smoke, Oil on linen, 30 x 40 in
ALEWIFE POND SUMMER, 2021, 48 x 48 in
Lazy Point, 2019, oil on canvas, 48 x 48 in
Napeague Bay, oil on canvas 53 x 72 in
Tropical Fusion IV, 2017, watercolor on paper, 17.75 x 24 in
Tropical Fusion I, 2017, watercolor on paper, 17.75 x 24 in
Red Step II, 2020, watercolor on arches paper, 30 x 22 in