artist
Janie George
biography
BA (Hons) Farnham
MA Slade School of Fine Art
Janie George lives and works in Bristol. Her work includes painting, printmaking and ceramics. She has a special interest in colour and our relationship with the natural world. She is a member of Jamaica Street Artists Studios and is a regular exhibitor at the RWA open exhibition. Janie George studied a BA in Printmaking at WSCAD, Farnham in the early 1980’s. She later took an MA at the Slade School, UCL, returning to work there as a teaching assistant in the early 90’s.
Returning to the West country she taught printmaking at Bath Spa University for fourteen years before moving to Bristol where she currently works as a lecturer at Bristol School of Art.Her prints and paintings have been shown in Britain and internationally. Last year her painting was chosen for a judges award at the Jackson’s Art Prize. Prints and small works are available from Frank, Whitstable.
Janie’s work explores the profound relationship between humanity and the natural world. The works mirror the seasonal shifts of light against our internal rhythms of rest and activity, echoing the natural lifecycle of plant growth and hibernation. In the paintings, colour shifts alongside light, with each unique hue carrying its own physical memory to build a sensory climate for the underlying motifs.Spanning the fluid boundaries of abstraction, figuration, surface, and pattern, the collection considers how human experience blends with the environment. The works draw from diverse inspirations—including Romantic poetry, gardening, archaeology, and textile designs. Janie treats plants as historical constants, symbols of intuition, and markers of beauty. Paintings map the natural world onto the deeply layered, imagined territory of the canvas.
website
@studiojaniegeorge
