EXTREMES AND INSTABILITIES

Janette Kerr likes a good storm - especially if it involves huge breaking, crashing waves. A painter deeply embedded in place, working at the interface between land, sea, and historical experience, she’s been called the ‘best painter of the sea in these islands’ (Brian Fallon, Chief Critic of the Irish Times).

‘..the energy in Kerr’s work reflects the power of nature itself, particularly with regard to her wayward scrawling, cutting, and dragging into her painted surface….’, (Ian McKay, State of Sea catalogue, Art North Projects 2020)

The Northern Isles

The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh are currently showing my paintings in a group exhibition of artists from Shetland, Orkney and the northern isles. The exhibition is now on until January 21st 2026

The Scottish Gallery
16 Dundas Street
Edinburgh EH3 6HZ

T: (+44) 0131 558 1200
E: mail@scottish-gallery.co.uk

https://scottish-gallery.co.uk/artists/janette-kerr/ https://scottish-gallery.co.uk/films/janette-kerr-the-sea/

NEWS

Current Exhibitions

My work is held by the following galleries:

Kilmorack Gallery, By Beauy, Inverness-shire https://www.kilmorackgallery.co.uk/janette-kerr-paintings/

Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh https://www.openeyegallery.co.uk/artists/54-janette-kerr/overview/

The Shetland Gallery, Yell, Shetland https://www.shetlandgallery.com/janette-kerr

Clifton Contemporary Gallery, Clifton, Bristol: https://www.cliftoncontemporaryart.co.uk/janette-kerr