Wendy Jennings

Gallery: Waggon Road Gallery, Victor Harbor
Postal: P.O. Box 1463 Victor Harbor 5211 SA
Tel: 08 8552 3415

Website: www.wjennings.com
Email: wendyjennngs@ozemail.com.au

"Death of the Tree Spirit - Glossy Cockatoos"
Gouache

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2005 2003 Oriel Gallery Brisbane
2004 Four Fang Academy of Art and Calligraphy Nanchang China
1999 Weswall Gallery Tamworth
1998 1995 Dubbo Regional Gallery
1994 Mildura Regional Gallery
1989 Southlands Gallery Canberra

Collections
Private collection of the late Arthur Boyd
Regional Gallery Collections in Broken Hill, Mildura, Dubbo
Private, Corporate and Government collections in Australia and overseas

Major Commissions
Western Plains Zoo Dubbo, three large outdoor animal interpretive displays
NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service Darling Riverine Bioregion Interpretive poster
Broken Hill City Art Gallery Regional Wildlife Poster

Major Awards
2008 Highly commended Victor Harbor Rotary Art Show
2006 Highly commended Waterhouse International Natural History Art Prize Adelaide
2005 Watercolour Award Victor Harbor Rotary Art Show
2004 Bronze, 2003 Silver Medals Wildlife Art Society of Australasia
2002 Best Watercolour Wildlife Society of Australasia
2002 Best Watercolour Zoomin Art Prize Western Plains Zoo Dubbo
2000 Best Innovative Work Award Wildlife Art Society of Australasia
1999 Allan MCEvoy Award Wildlife Art Society of Australasia

Selected References
2007 Scoop Magazine May/Dec
2001 Australian Artist magazine major article No 206
1998 "Focus on the Marshes" Dubbo Regional Gallery publication
1996 "The Wild Australians" Kangaroo Press
1994 Australian Geographic Magazine Jan/Mch
1984 "Australian Birdwatcher’s Diary" Rigby press

"Cuttlefish magicians"
Acrylic

Once a medical technologist daily using a microscope, the progression to studying nature with a camera and then a paintbrush seemed a natural one after living in some of Australia’s diverse National Parks over 30 years. Realism and accuracy are the key to my work, down to the tiny insect always present. I have developed an affinity with nature and love discussing it with clients or with visitors at an exhibition. My aim is to stimulate an interest in the conservation of the world’s wildlife and its habitats. I have had no formal art training but took it up while living in a remote park as a hedge against the lonliness. It did not take long before it became an obsession. "There is much to be leant from nature. We should not separate ourselves from it , or think we are greater than it , or we may miss something it has to teach us."

Available for teaching wildlife and nature in acrylics, watercolour, pen and pencil. Day, weekend or week workshops anywhere.
In Victor Harbor tuition and accommodation packages available. All ages and abilities welcome.
Commissions welcome.