Artist Jemma Derbyshire

Colour, surface and mark are the driving forces behind my practice.  My subject matter is found in the everyday - predominately in the unorganised still lives of home and garden paraphernalia.  Often just being caught by the haphazard placement of one object beside another, I get lost in visual connects, manipulating space and looking for the abstract values that exist within observation.  Playful in nature, the works begin to take on their own direction, leading me through a dialogue of colour in response to a heavily prepared under surface.

2009-present   Co-Director at Paintbox School of Art
2011- 2016       Tutor, Leith School of Art Edinburgh
2004 - 2008    BA Hons Drawing and Painting, Edinburgh College of Art
2003 - 2004    Foundation Course Fine Art and Design, Leith School of Art

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
October 2015       Tighnabruiach Gallery
June 2013            Dr Neil's Garden, Duddingston, Edinburgh
June 2011             The Red Barn Gallery, Melkinthorpe, Cumbria
Feb 2010             Solas, The Audalde Gallery, Edinburgh
Sept 2010            Coast, Leith School of Art, Edinburgh


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
January 2019        The Watermill Gallery, Aberfeldy
December 2018    Winter Exhibition, The Whitehouse Gallery, Kirkcudbright 
December 2017    Winter Exhibition, The Whitehouse Gallery, Kirkcudbright 
July 2016             RSW, Edinburgh
December 2015    Alchemy, Whitespace, Edinburgh
December 2014    The Dundas St Gallery, Edinburgh
June 2014            Velvet Easel, Edinburgh
November 2013    Creative Arts Online, The GlassHouse, Edinburgh
November 2012    Whitespace, Edinburgh
July 2012             Red Barn Gallery, Cumbria
June 2012            Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow
November 2011    RSA Open, Edinburgh
July 2011             Festival Show, The Leith Gallery, Edinburgh 
June 2010            Come Rain, Come Shine, The Billecliffe Gallery, Glasgow
May 2010            Journeys Through the Landscape, The Leith Gallery, Edinburgh 
October 2009      Inchmore Gallery, Beauly
January 2009       New Faces, The Leith Gallery, Edinburgh
January 2009       Visual Arts Scotland, The City Art Centre, Edinburgh
November 2008   Christmas Card Exhibition The Open Eye, Edinburgh
August 2008        The Next Step Rodger Billecliffe Gallery, Glasgow
February 2006     Glass and Thompson Edinburgh
February 2006     Hagen Aria London
October 2005      Battersea Arts Fair London
January 2005       New Faces The Leith Gallery Edinburgh