Victoria Parker Jervis

Chelsea School of Art 1981 - 6

Victoria Parker Jervis has been painting outside in open air for most of her life.
Painting has become her way of participating in the adventure of life.  It is a way of observing what is happening in the outside world and watching how people fit in with the landscape and the elements.  Part of the experience is working in all weathers and feeling immersed in whatever is going on out there.

For the last ten years she has been working around the area of Cambridge and Saffron Walden where she lives.  Her dog Damson follows wherever she goes and keeps her company. 

Lofty Trees exhibited at Michaelhouse Trinity Street 2006 was a selection of paintings exploring the ways in which trees can play with our imagination with their patterns of lines.  Her recent show Waterways 2008 added water as an essential ingredient to the composition of landscape, revealing reflections and movement. 

She also exhibits with Cambridge Drawing Society and Open Studios.  Collectors of her work include the Royal Bank of Scotland.

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Victoria Parker Jervis’s vibrant paintings of local scenes depict the join where land and water meet.  Every part of the painting competes for attention in this modern impressionist style.  Rather than mixing a colour, she has placed then on a canvas surface so that the eye is left to combine, resulting in a shimmering image. She captures an almost audible rhythm in her serious observation of the ever changeable quality of water. Familiar depictions of Cambridge and Saffron Walden serve to bridge the boundary between the experience of art and life.      Georgina Amos    freelance art critic