This month’s cover artist interprets beautiful landscapes, both on her doorstep and beyond
This month’s spotlight on a British Art Club member
JAYNE PERKINS DISCOVERED her love for painting at age six, when her parents’ good friend and artist Ronald Jesty gifted her a Paint by Numbers set including oil paints, brushes and a Peter Scott painting of two swans. “My parents were great supporters of the arts in general and my father did a lot of research into art colleges on my behalf,” says Jayne. “It was due to him that I found myself going to the Bath Academy of Art where I was exposed to and influenced by the incredible artists who taught at the college.”
At art college, the only medium available was oil, which Jayne used for several years until she followed her husband to Saudi Arabia. “It was here that I was asked to teach watercolour workshops at a Ladies Further Education Academy. Having no experience with the medium and no access to computers or books – as art books were heavily censored at the time – I was forced to explore the medium by myself, developing my own techniques and terminology.”
She continued to teach watercolour painting on their return to the UK and still does, to this day. “However, a few years ago, I discovered pastels when my husband surprised me with a beautiful box of Sennelier Pastels. It is now my favourite medium.
“I am generally a landscape artist, but I do deviate when the urge
