Called ‘the best painter of the sea in these islands’ by Brian Fallon, Chief Critic of the Irish Times, Janette Kerr PPRA, RSAhon delights in foul weather. Drawn to the perimeters of land, her work is an index of edges and ledges, exposed headlands and wind-swept seas. ‘My process of making paintings involves extremes and instabilities: peripheries and promontories – places of rapid change and shifts, both physically and meteorologically’. Her paintings are dynamic and suggestive, and have an organic life of their own. For the last 15 years she’s focussed primarily on Shetland and the far north, traveling extensively to wild sea and weather-scoured places. Residencies include Norway, Svalbard , Iceland, and Greenland. Integral to her working process is immersive experiences of observing and experiencing changing land/seas, physical and meteorological shifts. Walking and making work en plein-air, responding to sound and movement within landscape, is a prelude to making studio-based work. . I draw in landscapes replete with history and memories; people moving through, geological changes, forces of nature, suggesting a mutability of place”. Exhibiting regularly in the UK, her work is held in private and public collections, both nationally and internationally.