Artist: Jennifer Mackenzie

Title: Hebridean Beach

Medium: Oil

Image size: 20 cm square

Jennifer Mackenzie is originally from Lanarkshire. She graduated from the Glasgow School of Drawing and Painting in the early 1970 before going on to qualify as a teacher from Jordanhill College. Jennifer then went on to teach art and design in various schools in Lanarkshire, Inverness and Surtherland.

Since leaving teaching in 2001 Jennifer Mackenzie has become a full time professional artist, working from her studio in Sutherland. Her paintings are a response to her environment, in terms of colour, light and space in the Scottish tradition. Jennifer enjoys exploring colour and the tactile qualities of oil paint mainly through still life.