A Pure Cold Wind Blows me Half Way There, Voe of Dale, 2026
oil on gesso panel
H:30.5cm W:40.5cm
Janette Kerr’s work captures the shifting, transitory nature of the sea and weather. Her paintings are grounded in direct experience, an engagement with the raw, ever-changing forces of nature. Kerr studied fine art (completing a PhD in Fine Art at the University of the West of England in 2005) during which she deepened her thinking around the making of work in extreme and mutable landscapes. She also taught fulltime as a lecturer in painting, printmaking and drawing at the City of Bath College from 1980 to 1993, which helped shape her commitment to process, pedagogy and the dialogue between observation and material.
