About the Artist

Janine Burrows

Biography

With a background in surface pattern and printed textiles, Janine creates expressive, textural depictions of British countryside and coastal areas with a carefully considered colour palette and a gentle hand, creating poetic scenes, rich with texture and delicate naïve detailing.

From Mirfield, a small industrial town in Yorkshire, Janine has a studio at the West Yorkshire Print Workshop, a wonderfully diverse creative environment which provides excellent space and light for Janine’s work to develop.

Using mixed media to create these textural pieces, Janine mainly paints on wood using acrylic, emulsion, pencil and oil pastel in her exploration. Photographs and sketches are used in the process to recreate the essence of scenes back in her studio, free to investigate those memories and captured moments.

More recently Janine has has been creating more narrative pieces that look to still life’s and painted collected pieces that have been gathered in her studio. Birds, books, ceramics, ephemera all play their part in telling the story.