Welcome
Janet Buckle's work is representational with an interest in shapes, colour and pattern. She paints in oils on canvas or wood and her subjects include still - life, flowers and landscape. For the past twenty years she has been making paintings, mixed-media drawings and prints of the coal mining landscape.
Janet studied at the Slade School in London from 1965 to 69 and exhibits her work locally and nationally.
Exhibitions include:
1984 and 1993 - The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
1997 - 8 "Old King Coal" solo touring exhibition - Doncaster, Neath, Salford, Wakefield, Ilkeston, Cannock and Mansfield
2007 and 2009 - Lynn Painter Stainers Prize Exhibition - Painter Stainers Hall, London
2010 - Threadneedle Prize Exhibition - Mall Galleries, London
2011 - "Landscape of the Senses" - National Coal Mining Museum, Wakefield
Forthcoming exhibitions
"The Deep of the Modern" - Manifesta 9 The European Biennial of Contemporary Art - June 2nd to September 30th - Genk, Limburg, Belgium
"Changing Landscapes - Images of Coal "
2012 - May 5th to June 17th - Museum of Cannock Chase, Cannock
Publications
2002 "Shafts of light - Mining art in the Great Northern Coalfield"
Feb 2004 "The Artist" magazineHer work is in private collections including, Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery and the National Coal Mining Museum for England.
Commissions welcome | Click here to email Janet Buckle