Jenny Matthews & Judith Bridgland   Click here to view the exhibition
2nd August-17th August
Jenny Matthews was born in 1964 and grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland. She studied at Edinburgh College of Art under Elizabeth Blackadder, John Houston and Ann Oram, graduating in 1986 with a BA (Hons) in Drawing and Painting. Jenny has lived in France and Indonesia and is now based in Edinburgh with her husband and two children.

Jenny has earned her reputation as an accomplished Scottish watercolourist and over the last 17 years her work has been exhibited extensively in the UK and abroad. She has also exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) and Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW). Jenny appeared in the Top 20 of the ‘Savvy Art Investors Guide, 20 Scottish Artists to Buy’, in The Scotsman October 2004 and is the main artist feature in ‘Homes and Interiors Scotland’ magazine Jan-Feb 2005. Her paintings are in the collections of Adam and Co plc, Brodies WS, Hewlett Packard, Ian Rankin and Miranda Harvey, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, Murrayfield Hospital, Paintings in Hospitals and Walter Scott and Partners, as well as in private collections worldwide.

Jenny also works to commission and teaches drawing and watercolour painting.

EXHIBITIONS INCLUDE:
1987, 88, 93, 94, 99 RSA
1990, 94, 99, 03 RSW
1999, 00 Red Gallery, Marlow
1999, 00, 03, 04, 05 Tolquhon Gallery, Aberdeenshire
1999 Broughton Gallery, Biggar
1998, 00, 01, 02, Edinburgh Gallery
2001 Corrymella Scott Gallery, London
2002, 03 Affordable Art Fair (Strathearn Gallery)
2002, 03 Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2003 Henshelwood Gallery
2004 Inspires Gallery, Oxford
2004, 05, 06 Frames Gallery, Perth
2005 Tor Gallery, Inverness-shire
2005 Wade Gallery, Fife
2006 Wykeham Gallery, Hampshire
2001, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06 Thompson's Gallery, London and Aldeburgh

SOLO EXHIBITONS INCLUDE:
2005, 06 Colours Gallery, Edinburgh

1990 Painting published in 'The Encyclopaedia of Watercolour Techniques'
1993 Watercolour reproduced by Medici Society as a greetings card

Judith Bridgland

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
Scottish Galleries: Art Exposure Gallery, Glasgow (Solo and Mixed Shows)
Collins Gallery, Glasgow
Compass Gallery, Glasgow
RGI Exhibition, Kelly Gallery, Glasgow
Salon Glasgow, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
DeMarco European Art Foundation, Edinburgh
Di Rollo Gallery, Edinburgh (Solo Festival Show 2000 and 2002)
Lillie Art Gallery, Milngavie
McLean Art Gallery and Museum, Greenock
Jerden Gallery, Crail
Braemar Gallery, Braemar

UK Galleries: Vicarage Cottage gallery, North Shields
Beatrice Royal Contemporary Art Gallery, Southampton
Regatta Fine Art, Norfolk
Ainscough Contemporary Art, London (Solo and Mixed Shows)
The Contemporary Fine Art Gallery, Eton
Richmond Hill Gallery, Richmond
Thompsons’ Galleries

Overseas Galleries: Veem Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
Exhibition of Scottish Painting, St Petersburg, Russia (2003)
British Watercolour Roadshow, Galleri Verdi, Sweden (2003)

ART FAIRS: Glasgow Art Fair 1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003
Art 96 & Art 98, The London Contemporary Art Fair, London
ArtLondon 99 & 2000
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea park, London 1999,2000,2001,2002
Chelsea Art fair 1998,1999

COMPETITIONS and EXHIBITIONS:
Laing Competition, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Scotland Street School, Glasgow 1997,1998
Scottish Drawing competition, paisley Art Institute 1995,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002
Royal Glasgow Institute, McLellan galleries, Glasgow 1996,1997,1998,1999
Society of Artists and Artist Craftsmen, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh 1998


Judith’s work can be found in collections such as, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow Caledonian University, British Midland (Executive Lounge, Glasgow Airport) and in private collections in UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey, Mexico, Canada, USA, Australia and the United Arab Emirates.

Judith is also the Winner of 1999 MacRoberts Open Prize.


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