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Janine Partington: Enamels, Leather, Paintings

30 July to 17 September 2022

Janine Partington: Enamels, Leather, Paintings

We are delighted to welcome back Janine Partington for her major retrospective exhibition. In 2021, as Janine approached her 50th birthday, she decided to explore painting as a medium. Alongside her much-loved enamels and critically celebrated leather panels, this exhibition is the first time Janine will be showing some of her paintings.

Janine has been making things her whole life. Growing up Janine's artist father occupied the ground floor of their home with his painting studio, but her 'teenage rebellion' meant she never considered art as a career. However, after the birth of her second child in 2002, and then in her thirties, Janine began adult education evening classes in Bristol studying enamelling and selling her work. Janine became a full-time creative in 2006.

In 2015 Janine began an MA in Design at UWE, Bristol. Her degree show consisted of a series of carved and painted leather panels. Janine now creates leather panels alongside her enamelling practice. The work that she creates in leather is more personal. This has included responses to her father's Alzheimer's and death that was exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery as part of the Crafts Council's 'Collect Open' programme in 2019, and more recently a response to her mother's life, ill health and death.

Janine does also create one off smaller pieces in leather that often reflect her own personal emotional temperature through explorations of the natural world.

In 2021, as Janine approached her 50th birthday, she decided to explore painting as a medium. Janine had been reluctant to pick up a paintbrush as she saw her father as being what a painter could and should be, but there had always been a desire to layer and play with colours and forms and paint allows Janine to do this.

Whilst Janine is showing three seemingly distinct media, all take inspiration from nature, even in her more abstracted works. They also share a desire to create clean and defined lines, marks and shapes. Even in the more freestyle works in leather and paint there is an order and pattern to the work that hopefully brings balance.

Painted Brooch

Janine Partington

£25.00

Painted Brooch

Janine Partington

£35.00

Painted Brooch

Janine Partington

£30.00

Painted Brooch

Janine Partington

£30.00

Painted Brooch

Janine Partington

£25.00

Painted Brooch

Janine Partington

£30.00

Painted Brooch

Janine Partington

£25.00

Painted Brooch

Janine Partington

£30.00

Painted Brooch

Janine Partington

£25.00

Painted Brooch

Janine Partington

£30.00

Enamelled standing figure

Janine Partington

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Enamelled standing figure

Janine Partington

£130.00

Enamelled standing figure

Janine Partington

£55.00

Enamelled standing figure

Janine Partington

£65.00

Enamel earrings

Janine Partington

£35.00

Carved leather landscape

Janine Partington

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Carved leather house

Janine Partington

Sold

Carved leather shape, mounted

Janine Partington

Sold

Carved leather rays, mounted

Janine Partington

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Carved leather landscape, framed

Janine Partington

Sold

Carved leather collage

Janine Partington

£140.00

Carved leather collage

Janine Partington

£140.00

Carved leather collage

Janine Partington

Sold

Carved leather collage, framed

Janine Partington

£140.00

Carved leather brooch

Janine Partington

£25.00

Carved leather brooch

Janine Partington

£30.00

Carved leather collage, framed

Janine Partington

£350.00

Carved leather collage, mounted

Janine Partington

£180.00

Carved leather brooch

Janine Partington

£30.00

Carved leather brooch

Janine Partington

£30.00

Carved wood & leather brooch

Janine Partington

£30.00

Carved leather brooch

Janine Partington

£30.00

Carved wood & leather brooch

Janine Partington

£30.00

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