Next Year:

May, 2012  "Some Kind Of Narrative"  Joint Exhibition at Leatherhead Theatre, Leatherhead, Surrey.  Stephanie Greenslade - Jenny Meehan

Link to an example of work by Stephanie Greenslade, winner of the Imaginative Drawing category of The Rootstein Hopkins Foundation Drawing Competition 2011:

http://www.morleycollege.ac.uk/news_and_events/latest_news/263_prizewinners_announced_for_drawing_exhibtion

Jigsaw4Uinternational.org project "Strong Voices" Event 2011 at The Rose Theatre, Kingston Upon Thames in October.  "Articulation" (sculpture)  and photographs.  Charity event.

 Cranleigh Arts Centre Open Exhibition 2011 at Cranleigh Arts Centre, Cranleigh, Surrey
22nd June - 28th July 2011. Juried Exhibition                                                                                                 

“Hidden Artists" Exhibition at Denbies Picture Gallery, Denbies Wine Estate, Dorking, Surrey. 25th - 30th January 2011. Charity event for NSPCC.

"John Lewis Prize" Exhibition (of shortlisted work) at "The Place To Eat", John Lewis, Kingston Upon Thames. 8th September - 10th December 2010 Juried Exhibition

Pallant House Gallery/St Wilfrid's Hospice Open Art Exhibition at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, West Sussex.  3rd June - 2nd July 2010.  Juried Exhibition.

Surrey Artists Network Ist Anniversary Exhibition at Otters Pool Studio, Guildford.   Ist May - 22nd May 2010. Juried Exhibition.

Denbies  Open Exhibition 2010  (Denbies Vineyard, Dorking, Surrey, UK) January 7th-17th, 2010.

"Doorway" Visual Meditation  2009 (Jenny Meehan and Mary Reid) at St Paul's C of E Church, Hook, Surrey.  February 22nd.

Denbies  Open Exhibition 2009 (Denbies Vineyard, Dorking, Surrey, UK) January 9th-18th, 2009. 

Les Kirkin Memorial Exhibition 2008  (Kingston Museum, Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey, UK ) March 6th -13th  Juried.

Kingston Contemporary Open 2007 (Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey, UK). Juried.

Kingston Contemporary Open 2006  (Stanley Picker Galllery, Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey, UK). Juried.

ECO Arts Project 2006  Participated in the Arts4Development Collage (Washington, USA) July

"Articulation"  ( Leatherhead Theatre, Leatherhead, Surrey) 4th August to 27th August 2009.

"Colour-Full-House"  (Cornerhouse Community Arts Centre, Surbiton, Surrey) January 4th to January 30th 2010.

"Inking Outside The Block" (CornerHOUSE Arts Centre, Surbiton)  December 5th to December 31st 2011. 

Painting - Highly Commended - Needhams Open Art Competition 2009, Cambridgeshire, UK. Juried Exhibition.

Poetry - Finalist (second place) in "Literary Mary" poetry competition March 2009

BA Hons English Literature (Kingston University, Kingston Upon Thames)

PGCE Primary Education (Roehampton Institute, Roehampton)

Ongoing - Short Courses in a variety of  creative disciplines continue to inform my practice and enable me to benefit from the expertise of a variety of experienced practitioners.  

Kingston Museum

John Lewis Partnership

Private collections both in the United Kingdom and abroad

The White Gallery, Dorking, Surrey RH4 1UT

I have a  mailing list.  You will get up to two mailings a year at the most, sent Bcc.  See the contact page to email me at my email address, or  j.meehan@tesco.net  

I am a painter/designer/multi-disciplinary artist based in Surrey/South West London, United Kingdom.   I produce both personal, small scale artworks (mainly paintings) as well as working on commissioned art for other people.   

Painting is the dominant thrust of my practice, and I use both oils and acrylics for smaller paintings while preferring ecologically friendly paints for larger work.  My personal paintings explore pretty much whatever I want them to, with paintings for other people guided by external requirements.  My work tends to be process orientated, but I do involve a lot more planning and design in larger paintings and in paintings for particular purposes. In the past I  worked intensively (2006 - 2008) with digital photography,  and my work with metal, poetry, paint, and other media, related to, and was often intergrated with, photography. During 2008 I continued to experiment in various ways with  relationships between different media.  From 2009 onwards I started devoting more time to the development of my painting and drawing, as the greater powers of expression offered were too attractive to resist. From 2010, I experimented with several different types of natural and mineral paint, acrylics and oils, and now most of my time is spent with painting and printmaking.  

I view my work as a natural and evolving process which is primarily to do with the emotions and spirit; the work itself is the main signifier...an articulation of fragmentary experience.  I find certain areas of interest re-emerge, and the natural environment is a constant source of inspiration, along  with the expression of my own personal life journey.  My work  has many different strands, and I enjoy this diversity. I have no desire to restrict my work to any particular style or subject matter in an artificial way. My  faith underpins my artistic contemplation and production;  the mystery of faith and of reality beyond the limitations of a human rational mindset is something which motivates me.  Alongside my personal paintings, I enjoy working with other people creatively and I’ve recently started using my past teaching experience in combination with my current practice which is something I would like to continue with.

For more examples of my work:

http://www.surreyartistsnetwork.net/photo/photo/listForContributor?screenName=2a99ari328mgl  for recent work in a variety of media.

http://www.jennymeehan.wordpress.com/  for writing, poetry, christian/spiritual reflection/meditations and more detailed information on projects and events.

"Sack of a Great House/ Wake"  Acrylic on Board, 2011