Jenny Blyth – portfolio

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https://www.jennyblythfineart.co.uk
07798 526252
jennyblythart@gmail.com

Artist information

Jenny Blyth, curator, floating gallerist, photographer, yoga teacher.

The art that I exhibit as gallerist is largely based in the natural world, whether figurative or abstracted. I have been a curator and gallerist for twenty five years and in my spare time I love to walk and to take photographs. I like the quiet, and to feel at one with nature. It was a privilege to show new work at the John Radcliffe, Corridor Gallery in January this year, and I am excited to be taking part in Artweeks in May.

I have had two galleries in Oxford between 2014 and 2023 at Art Jericho and Carey Blyth Gallery, and curated Saatchi Gallery from 1990-2002 building a collection of young British artists. Jenny Blyth Fine Art (JBFA) continues to curate exhibitions and advise artists about their work since closing Carey Blyth Gallery in December 2023.

Recent exhibitions and projects include ‘Earth & Angels’ at Bishopsgate October 2024-March 2025, and COLLECT Art Fair at Somerset House February/March 2025.

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Exhibition information

I attempt to capture a sense of oneness in my photographs – they are of landscape on Port Meadow and Oxford City, and some of my favourite places such as Blenheim and the Wantage Downs above Uffington, Oxfordshire, and farther afield. I have always been drawn to the poetry in photography, and try to catch the moment as it feels on the day. I am not technically minded, and shy away from photoshop so that the images are as true as they can be.

I never tire of Port Meadow and have walked daily whatever the weather for years. I love the huge skies, and stepping onto the meadow that stretches towards Oxford, it presents like an old Dutch master, an ever-changing canvas. It is large enough to lose yourself in nature, to embrace the elements, and familiar enough to allow a quiet meditation.

The seasons transform the landscape, shape-shifting and refreshing the palette. There is invariably something unexpected and beautiful to observe whether a young hawthorn tree valiant against the gathering storm, or a tern, light winged and delicate, hovering before the last dive on a summer’s evening. Gun-metal skies threaten thunder above a buttercup sea in June, while hoar frost crystallizes the floodplains under apricot winter skies where hoof print hollows break the ice. The horses and their foals winter on the meadow – they don’t seem to mind the cold, their coats thick and soft.

To purchase work or for enquiries please contact Jenny Blyth on 07798 526 252, or by email jennyblythart@gmail.com or via my website www.jennyblythfineart.co.uk/contact