Jeannine Osborne

Studio

Studio

Studio

Look Closer
Jeannine Osborne, Wendy Brown, Jan Hendry,

This exhibition has been conceived by two scientists, Dr Rogers-Bald and Dr Martin Milner, from St Andrews University, and three women artists who all have scientific backgrounds.

The work displayed is based on microscopic slides, mainly from the Victorian era, that were used as teaching aids to further understanding of the natural world at a time when this was a new and fascinating field to explore. They invested grace, precision and time in mounting the various biological artefacts captured in them. These slides are of value both as scientific artefacts and as art forms.

Wendy Brown, originally New York State, USA, now living in Cupar, Fife, previously worked at Harvard at Conquered Fields Station in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. The beauty of the microscopic slides has inspired a series of mixed media, colourful, expressionistic works.

Jan Hendry, based in Fife, has collected and processed minerals found in Arran, the Highlands, Fife and Angus, to make pigments for her paintings on paper. The red and yellow ochres and the coal black, all come from Carboniferous rocks, dated between 360 and 286 million years old, and formed before birds, mammals and flowers evolved. Most life on land at that time was invertebrate. It is appropriate that she has made her work with pigments inspired by the forms of the creatures that evolved in this time.

Jeannine Osborne has maintained her interest in the world of science since her earlier degree in Earth Science. Although Jeannine's work is mainly figurative, for this exhibition she has made large abstract oil paintings that correspond to manipulated, magnified images of the slides.

Jan and Jeannine are both 2003 graduates from the School of Fine Art, DJCAD.

Lower Foyer Gallery, DJCAD Mon - Fri 9.30am - 6pm, Sat 10.30am-4.30pm, admission free, until February 7.

100 women paint the sea

13 - 29 January 2006

In the 100 women paint the sea project Moira Scott Payne brought together 100 women living on the east coast of Scotland to make a statement about the sea. Initially this project set out to record the changing lives of women in the face of the declining fishing industries, however it became clear quite early on that many seized it as an opportunity to express deeply held feelings about their own lives.

A broad section of the community came together for the project; women from the fish shops, local guesthouses, fishermen’s wives and daughters, a couple who live and work in a lighthouse, women involved in fund raising for the local lifeboat, and women who have lost loved ones at sea.

Each woman was invited to paint a 12inch square canvas of the sea and they each gave a voice recording of their thoughts or stories about the sea.

Moira is a Fine Art researcher at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. Her research is concerned with landscape, language and social interaction.Recent exhibitions include The Harbourfront Gallery, Toronto and an audio/drawing artists book project, published by Hungry Dog Press.

Further information about the project can be found on the website: www.100womenpaintthesea.co.uk

This is one part of my studio. At the moment I am working on a series of large painting for an exhibition.
I also use the studio to make the canvasses on which I paint.

2006 ‘100 Women Paint the Sea”, Centre Space, Visual Research Centre, Dundee
Contemporary Arts, Dundee

‘ Richard Carr’, Student Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

2005 ‘Figure in Seascapes’, Pittenweem Arts Festival

‘Portraits’, Mckenzie Gallery, St Andrews

2004 ‘Figures in the Landscape’, Indigo Gallery, St Andrews

‘New Faces’, Leith Gallery, Edinburgh

2003 ‘Mike’, Student Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

‘Look Closer’, Collaboration between the School of Biology, St Andrews
University, Jeannine Osborne, Jan Hendry and Wendy Brown. Based on the
work of D’Arcy Thomson and Victorian microscope slides

1999 ‘Geological Landscapes’, Open Exhibition, Kirkaldy Museum

1999 ‘Mummies with Faces’, St Andrew’s Museum

1998 ‘Portraiture’, Elmwood College, Cupar, Fife

1997 ‘Three Scottish Artists’, Hillhead Library/Gallery, Glasgow (Jeannine Osborne,
Jan Hendry, J eanne McLaughlin )

I have opened a seperate Gallery for drawings and painting of animals and will add new work to it

2003 Degree Show, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee

2000 ‘The Art of the Feline’, Dundee College, Dundee

I am a Scottish artist based on the East Coast of Scotland. I am mainly a portrait Painter which I take commissions for. I gained a BAHons in Fine Art at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design Dundee. I am also a qualified Illustrator. At the moment I am finishing a Master of Philosophy in Art.