Jennifer Irvine RGI RSW
Ansouis Provence Framed Size: 72 x 52 cm 72 52
Carvoeiro, The Algarve Framed Size: 70 x 70 cm 70 70
Shadows and Sunshine, Gigondas Framed Size: 142 x 112 cm 142 112
Summer Garden, Frontenay sur Dive Framed Size: 131 x 101 cm 131 101
L’église, Gigondas Framed Size: 47 x 47 cm 47 47
Caveau du Gigondas, Provence Framed Size: 110 x 110 cm 110 110
Seguret Village, Provence Framed Size: 66 x 66 cm 66 66
Street Shadows, The Algarve Framed Size: 70 x 70 cm 70 70
French Garden, Frontenay Framed Size: 47 x 47 cm 47 47
Cliff Walk, Carvoiero Framed Size: 57 x 57 cm 57 57
Isle of Tiree, Blue sky, Cornaigmore Framed Size: 31 x 31 cm 31 31
Isle of Tiree, Cornaigmore Framed Size: 31 x 31 cm 31 31
Isle of Tiree, Hough Bay Framed Size: 31 x 31 cm 31 31
Isle of Tiree, Sea Mist, Cornaigmore Framed Size: 31 x 31 cm 31 31
Isle of Tiree, White Sands, Hough Framed Size: 31 x 31 cm 31 31
Spanish House Framed Size: 36 x 36 cm 36 36
St Martin de Belleville, Winter Framed Size: 36 x 36 cm 36 36
Wedding Villa, The Algarve Framed Size: 47 x 47 cm 47 47
Portuguese Village Framed Size: 47 x 47 cm 47 47
Dappled Sunshine, Gigondas Provence Framed Size: 110 x 110 cm 110 110
Winter Landscape Framed Size: 67 x 72 cm 67 72
This much awaited exhibition of 25 paintings will take viewers on a journey through all of Jennifer’s favourite painting locations and a few new ones. Jennifer paints places she has visited over the years, returning again and again to Provence in France and The Algarve in Portugal. A recent first visit to the Hebridean island of Tiree, with its very special quality of light, inspired Jennifer to pick up her brushes and the resulting paintings are featured in this exhibition.
In the main group of Provencal paintings Jennifer conveys a real feeling of the heat of the sun soaking into the buildings, with its shimmering light and luminous shadows. There is a similar feeling with the Portuguese work but there she concentrates more on the intense colour afforded by the bountiful bougainvillea and mimosa and the beautiful shadows that they create in the heat of the day. On Tiree it is the very distinctive light there that fascinates Jennifer. Even on a day of leaden sky there is an amazing pale, transparent, translucent turquoise light that is completely captivating and again just as much of a challenge to capture.