JEANETTE JOBSON

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY Jeanette Jobson is a visual artist who lives and works in Flatrock, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. She was born in Nova Scotia, grew up in Newfoundland, and lived in Ireland and the United Kingdom for fourteen years, before returning to the province in 1988. She studied fine art under Tom Greenshields, R.A., in the UK, with an emphasis on classical drawing techniques.

ARTIST STATEMENT
The play of light on form that turns the common into the extraordinary is what inspires my work. Painting knives and buttery oil paints are used to create broad strokes of colour that make the viewer want to lean in closer to see or to reach out and touch the texture of the surface, which is almost sculptural.

Water always has its appeal and I enjoy the challenge of creating that shifting, reflective surface, especially in an impressionist technique. The clean lines of traditionally built wooden boats, wharves and rocks contrasting against the fluid background capture my imagination and fuel my knowledge with colour and movement.

ARTIST RESUME
42 Three Island Pond Road
Flatrock, NL A1K 1C8
Home 709-701-8328 Cell: 709-746-9968
Email: jeanettejobson@gmail.com
Website: www.jeanettejobson.comART EDUCATION
1984 – 1988 Fine Art –Tom Greenshields R.A. (Royal Academy) Hawkchurch,
Devon, UK
2007 - Mike Sibley – Negative space workshop
2007 – T. Rochford/Anita Murphy - Realistic portraiture
2008 – Armin Mersmann – Symbolic portraiture
2022 - Abstraction - Betty Franks (online)
2023 - Clay sculpture - Kathy Lewis (online)
2022 - Abstract drawing - Deb Weiers (online)
2022 - Growing Your Practice - Kasey Moran (online)
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Baccalieu Gallery, Heart’s Content, NL
Peter Lewis Gallery, St. John’s, NL
Five Island Gallery, Tors Cove, NL (permanently closed)
Newfoundland Canvas, St. John’s, NL
EXHIBITIONS
2023 - 9th year, Twitter Art Exhibition International (donated work)
2022 - The Newfoundland Show – 5 Bells Gallery, Halifax, NS - May
2022 Water - solo exhibition, Baccalieu Gallery - May
2022 - Group exhibition – Peter Lewis Gallery - December
2020 - Seven Deadly Sins, solo exhibition, Baccalieu Gallery - July
2015 - Group exhibition, Peter Lewis Gallery
2015 – Solo exhibition – Wooden Boats – Relics of the Past – Peter Lewis
Gallery
2015 – Five Island Gallery – Resettlement project
2015 – The Rooms, St. John’s, NL - Meritorius mention - Arts & Letters Awards
2014 – Group exhibition – Jewels of Summer – Peter Lewis Gallery July 2014 –
Five Island Gallery - summer season
2013 – Artbomb
2013 –Group exhibitions - Come Rain Drizzle or Fog & Panorama - Peter Lewis
Gallery - July and November
2012 – Arts Northeast – group Spring exhibition
2012 – Five Island Gallery – Reflections on Cod
2012 – UNION Gallery – ‘Mark of Beauty’, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh,
Scotland
2012 – Comfort & Job group exhibition, Craft Council Newfoundland &Labrador
2012 – Group exhibition Arts Northeast - Children’s Wish Foundation
Fundraiser
2011 – Blue – Juried Exhibition, Craft Council Newfoundland and
Labrador 2011 - Arts Northeast, Beginnings -Group Exhibition, Masonic
Temple, St. John’s, NL
2011 – Arts Northeast – Group Exhibition – MUN Botanical Garden 2011 -
'Trees for Life' charity exhibition, Out of the Blue, Edinburgh, Scotland 2011 -
Comfort & Joy group exhibition, Craft Council Newfoundland & Labrador
2010 - The Rooms, St. John’s, NL, April 2010 – Arts & Letters Awards
2010 – Bacalao, Gyotaku Exhibition, December 2010 – February
2011
2008 – Women Artists – Realist Artists NL – Arts and Culture Centre, Corner
Brook, NL
2008 - Eastern Health Fundraiser Exhibition – Realist Artists NL – Health
Sciences Centre and St. Clare’s Mercy Hospital, St. John’s, NL 2008 –
Antidull – online art magazine – Issue 4
2007-2008 Spring and fall exhibitions – Art Association, NL 2007 - Beagle
Paws – Paws in the Park – exhibition and demonstration of animal
portraiture, Bowring Park
1985-88 - Representation – Montage Gallery, Chard, Somerset, UK
1986-87 – Group Open show – Dillington House, Ilminster, Somerset,
UK 1980-81 – Art Fair – Combe St. Nicholas, Devon, UK
TEACHING
2008 – Present – Drawing and painting instructor- private workshops and
mentoring
2015 – Painting Instructor - Anna Templeton Centre,
2014 – Palette knife painting workshop – AANL
2012 - Online drawing tutorials www.jeanettejobson.com
2012 – Creativity in multimedia workshop – Art
Association
2012 – Painting water workshop - AANL
2011 - Gyotaku Workshop – Anna Templeton Centre (private)
2009 – Gyotaku workshop – Art Association NL
2007 – 2008 – Drawing Instructor – Michaels Arts & Crafts
2006 – Drawspace – art educator, curriculum designer and moderator for
online art site
ART COLLECTIONS
Collection of Government of Newfoundland and Labrador Art Bank – 2009
My work is in private collections in Canada, USA, England, Germany,
Australia and New Zealand.
GRANTS
2014 – Professional Project Grant – Wooden Boats – Newfoundland and
Labrador Arts Council (NLAC)
2010 – Professional Project Grant – Gyotaku - Newfoundland and Labrador
Arts Council (NLAC)AWARDS
2014 - Meritorious Mention - Arts & Letter Awards
2010 - Meritorious Mention - Arts & Letter Awards
2008 - First place – Charcoal on paper Portraiture – Elizabeth Scammell
Reynolds – Art Association Fall exhibit
2007 - Best in show – Realist Artists NL - The Artist’s Cat
ART NETWORKS
∙ Co-founder of Arts Northeast, a collaborative group of visual artists
living on the Northeast Avalon Peninsula.
∙ VANL-CARVAC – Visual Artists Newfoundland and Labrador Canadian
Artists Representation – Professional Visual Artist Member – 2009 -
present
∙ Watermarks – I was part of a group of nine artists from Europe, the
USA and Canada who produced water-related art and display and
discussed it online. http://watermarks-art.blogspot.com The group
disbanded in 2012 after two years of active participation.
∙ My website www.jeanettejobson.com
∙ Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/IslanderNL ∙
Social media – Facebook, Instagram, Twitter - jeanettejobson
PUBLICITY
June 2021, - Martine Blue, Colleen Power, film Fibe 1 TV
https://vimeo.com/776676822/c1e53352ce?mibextid=Zxz2cZ&fbclid=IwAR2KD
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July 2021 - The Broadcast, CBC Radio - Interview on Baccalieu Gallery, impact of
Covid on art business
April 2016 – The Broadcast, CBC Radio – interview on painting wooden boats
June 2015 – The Telegram, St. John’s, NL – Wooden Boats – Relics of the Past
http://www.thetelegram.com/Living/Entertainment/2015-06-10/article
4176442/Relics-of-the-past/1
2015 – Summer Edition - Home & Cabin magazine article on wooden boats
project.
2015 – Creation of book “Wooden Boats – Relics of the Past” to accompany the
exhibit of paintings.
2015 – Artist Talk – Peter Lewis Gallery – presentation of the background,
sketches and paintings of the Wooden Boat exhibition
2013 – Highbrau magazine, December 2013 “Harvest” – 5 relief prints
http://www.hbmag.ca/
2013 – Creation of book “Introduction to Palette Knife Painting”. Now out of
print.2012 – CONSERVATION magazine Winter 2012 Edition. Gyotaku illustration for
cover and feature article
http://www.conservationmagazine.org/contents/winter-2012/ 2012 – KOI
magazine, August 16, 2012 edition. Review of The Gyotaku Project.
January 2010 - The Telegram, St. John’s, NL; VOCM – radio interview; NTV –
television interview – Kisses for Haiti
http://illustratedlife.blogspot.com/2010/01/two-days-to-bid-kisses-for
haiti.html
May 2010 - Fresh Plans http://www.myfreshplans.com/2010-05/japanese
fish-art-lesson-plans/ use of Pisces Indecision gyotaku piece to illustrate
Japanese fish art lessons.
April 2011 – Featured artist, Newfoundland and Labrador Arts
Council http://www.nlac.nf.ca/feature/jobson.htm
2011 - The Gyotaku Project A book documenting a year in gyotaku exploration