Jenny Paints for Raymond Blanc - Painting Taste!

I am in foody painting heaven  working on a brand new collection of canvases for Raymond Blancs Brasserie Blanc Restuarants . Having just bought 7 new restuarants in London each one is going to receive a collection of my new paintings inspired by Monsieur Blancs amazing recipes. I am creating a  whole new look with the addition of texture and colour using plaster, impasto, glazes, gold and silver leaf, stencil work and collage. Each canvas has been indivudally worked with a surface texture to resemble old plaster with colour washed over the top and then glimpses of recipes and text coming through the broken stencil work. I am painting lemons, oysters, artichokes and a whole collection of delicious foods. I am wondering if I can somehow paint taste and  describe the essence of Raymond Blancs delicious recipes in a painting; summing up the notion of zesty lemon with the addition of gold leaf and drizzling lemon yellow paint, the sensuousness of oysters with soft colour and texture, artichokes, beetroot and even the thrill of champagne corks popping ..... These paintings are designed to be delicious, with all their layers of texture and colour

 not unlike Raymonds recipes!

Jenny shows you how to paint mackerel on film!- go on get your paints out!

Where have all the Bollards gone?!

You might be wondering where all the painted bollards have gone to from The Square?  Dont worry they havent fallen victim to the amount of lorries working recently in the vicinity, in fact quite the opposite. They are currently being lovingly restored back to their former glory. My colleague Rachael and I are currently installed in a pop up 'Bollard Studio' in The Brooks Shopping Centre next to Argos. We are repainting the 10 original Bollards plus 7 more new ones - all in the styles of iconic artists that many of you will be familiar with; including Mondrian, Picasso, Henri Matisse, Gustav Klimt and many more.

Pop in for a chat and see for yourselves the amazing transformation of the 'Cannon 500' Bollard. (I'm getting quite geeky even obsessed about these bollards say my friends !!...)

The Minster Gallery - last few days

If you are out and about Christmas shopping in Winchester, maybe visiting the lovely Christmas Market in the Cathedral grounds or having a whizz round the ice rink call in to the beautiful Minster Gallery directly opposite the Cathedral entrance on Great Minster Street to look at my exhibtion. The show finsihes on Saturday 3rd Decemeber and then the work goes on tour to other galleries. Its a really lively colourful exhibtion and well worth a look, all the good things in life including food,wine and holidays.

My exhibtion at The Minster Gallery in Winchester opens next week

'A Glass or Two'

 a painting just finished for my forthcoming show

 Just over a week to go before my solo Exhibition at The Minster Gallery in Winchester which opens  Friday 18th November
 exhibition continues until 3rd December 

Jenny Muncaster

New Collection of Work

The Minster Gallery (opposite Winchester Cathedral)

3A Great Minster Street, Winchester, Hampshire SO23 9HA
Friday 18th November - 3rd December 2011

Mini Masterpieces in an Evening!

It was the final lesson for my workshopees in my evening class last week and the room was buzzing with creativity! Each student produced a piece of work taking inspiration from one or two of the techniques learnt in my 6 week course and came up with some truly magnificent pieces - all so individual and each full of character, colour and imagination. I am amazed at the results after only a 2 hour workshop, using acrylic paints, collage and  mixed media with subjects from still life to landscapes and abstract. I must say the two bottles of fantastic wine given to us by the lovely Rachel  at Wine Utopia helped the creative juices flow! (www.wineutopia.co.uk)  Thank you Rachel and a massive well done to all my students for their creativity and good company throughout the course. Keep up the sketchbooks and see you all again for another session soon!

For more information about my next art evening classes at The Colour Factory please do email info@thecolourfactory.org.uk and I will keep you in touch.

I am now back in my studio just about to start a painting for my forthcoming exhibtion:

Jenny Muncaster New Collection of Paintings 

The Minster Gallery, Winchester

openinig on

 18th November - 3rd December -

 will keep you posted with news!

Workshopees Playing with Mixed Media

It was Lesson 5 last night with my evening class artists here at The Colour Factory and 'mixed media' was the name of the game! It can be tricky at first deciding how to put things together to make a composition but out of the darkness came visions of lovliness!!!!

Starting with colourfully distressed backgrounds I encouraged the creative assembly of images with the addition of decorative colour, lettering, pattern and gold leaf to add to the glamour. I really cant believe the wonderful masterpieces that came out of this class in only two hours!  What a fantastic achievement, and some really inspiring pieces or art which are going to look fantastic when framed up and hung on the wall.

Theres no stopping you now, its all about playing and having fun, you cant go wrong and as Louise said last night, 'anything goes!'

GET THE PAINT AND COLLAGE OUT AND GO FOR IT!!!