Jeanette Barnes

Biography

After completing a Fine Art degree at Liverpool Polytechnic, Jeanette Barnes studied Postgraduate courses in London, Fine Art at the Royal Academy Schools and Printmaking at the Royal College of Art. For the past thirty years, she has worked on large energetic drawings of the urban landscape and makes prints of the city. Jeanette has exhibited in many solo and group shows, including several times at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Jerwood Drawing Prize, & Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, and has work in corporate and private collections. She has been awarded various scholarships and prizes, including the Hugh Casson Drawing Prize 2013 – Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, The Working Drawing Award – TBW Drawing Prize 2019, and the TBW Drawing Prize in 2023. She taught drawing on the Royal Academy Outreach Programme and for the Royal Drawing School for many years. She has a studio in East London.