:Janette Kerr

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Janette Kerr {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|PPRWA|HRSA}} (b. 1959) is a British painter of land and seascapes.

Janette Kerr served as the president of the Royal West of England Academy from 2011 to 2016 and then became a visiting research fellow in Fine Art at the University of the West of England. Kerr is an Honorary Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture Academician.{{Cite web|title=Janette Kerr PPRWA HRSA|url=https://www.royalscottishacademy.org/members/janette-kerr-pprwa-hrsa/|access-date=2021-04-06|website=Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture}}

From 1980 to 1993, Kerr taught as a full-time lecturer in painting, printmaking and drawing at the City of Bath College.{{cite web|title=City of Bath College - Art and Design|url=http://www.citybathcoll.ac.uk/full-time-courses/art-and-design.html|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402130742/http://www.citybathcoll.ac.uk/full-time-courses/art-and-design.html|archivedate=2015-04-02|work=citybathcoll.ac.uk}} In 2005 Kerr completed a PhD in Fine Art at the University of West England.

Janette Kerr is known for her paintings of the far North and High Arctic including the Shetland Isles, Ireland, Norway and Iceland and works en-plein-air. Her direct experience of the coastline—the weather, the ocean, the people who live and work there and oceanographic studies, feature in her art.{{cite web|title=Janette Kerr|url=http://www.rwa.org.uk/artists/janette-kerr|publisher=Royal West of England Academy|accessdate=23 August 2017|language=en|date=14 June 2016}}{{cite web|title=Janette Kerr RWA » LAND2|url=http://land2.leeds.ac.uk/people/kerr/|publisher=University of Leeds|accessdate=23 August 2017|language=en}} Kerr's residencies include Nes International art residency, Skagaströnd, NW Iceland (2020),  Arctic Circle Programme expedition (2016), Meteorological Institute, Bergen, Norway, Brisons Veor, Cape Cornwall and Shetland Fishing Stations (2012) and Cill Rialaig in Ireland .{{Cite web|last=|first=|title=About Janette Kerr|url=https://www.janettekerr.co.uk/resume|access-date=2021-04-06|website=JanetteKerr.co.uk}}  In Norway, Kerr 'worked alongside Norwegian oceanographers at the meteorological Institute in Bergen studying the unpredictability of waves and wind, which had a profound influence on her work.'{{Cite web|last=|first=|title=About Janette Kerr|url=https://www.janettekerr.co.uk/about|access-date=2021-04-07|website=JanetteKerr.co.uk}} Kerr's collaborative work includes 'Confusing Shadow with Substance', a film and sound installation in Shetland, exhibited at the Shetland Museum{{Cite web|title=Janette Kerr and Jo Millet Confusing Shadow with Substance|url=https://www.shetlandmuseumandarchives.org.uk/exhibitions/gadderie-archive/2017-08-27t17-42-21-01-00|access-date=2021-04-07|website=Shetland Museum and Archives}} and project funded by Creative Scotland.{{Cite web|title=Confusing Shadow with Substance|url=https://land2.leeds.ac.uk/projects/confusing-shadow-with-substance/|access-date=2021-04-07|website=Land2 University of Leeds}}

Janette Kerr's paintings 'acknowledge the legacy of the 18th Century Romantic Sublime, confrontations with nature in its most elemental state.'{{Cite web|title=RWA / Artists/ Academicians/ Janette Kerr|url=https://www.rwa.org.uk/blogs/artists/janette-kerr|access-date=2021-04-06|website=Royal West of England Academy}} Her paintings involve 'extremes and instabilities: peripheries and promontories – places of rapid change and shifts, both physically and meteorologically.'{{Cite web|title=Janette Kerr Overview|url=https://www.cadogancontemporary.com/artists/janette-kerr/|access-date=2021-04-07|website=Cadogan Contemporary}}

'Contemporary and experimental, Janette does not aim to create meticulous studies of the landscape, preferring instead to respond to what is sensed rather than what is seen. Her paintings explore the boundaries between representation and abstraction whilst embodying the power and immediacy of both land and sea.'{{Cite web|last=Katy|first=Cowan|date=24 January 2019|title=Feature Janette Kerr|url=https://www.creativeboom.com/features/janette-kerr/|access-date=2021-04-06|website=Creative Boom}}

Kerr's work can be seen in public collections including the Maine Maritime Museum, USA, Royal Collection, London, Shetland Arts, Shetland Isles, NorthLink Ferries, Scotland, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Bergen, Norway, Dublin Office of Public Works, RWA Permanent Collection, Tallboys Bequest Bristol, Victoria Art Gallery Print Collection, Bath, Grizedale Society, Cumbria and the Colle Verde Art Trust, Tuscany.{{Cite web|title=Janette Kerr Biography|url=https://www.kilmorackgallery.co.uk/artists/106-janette-kerr/biography/|access-date=2021-04-07|website=Kilmorack Gallery}}