Confessions of THE Art Executor

Now I see this work again, I understand how it helps explain the development of Jenny’s works on paper.

How a simple typing mistake misled the artist, a Gallery owner, and the Art Executor.

Like this Composition, a list may look easy, but it’s much more sophisticated than it appears.

Every catalogue must tell a story.

4 years on, I am starting to realise that being an Art Executor is a lifetime’s calling.

Setting off into the blue sky, two men in a balloon are alone in the vastness.

Like many, more important, projects for 2020 our plan for an exhibition of Jenny’s work has fallen victim to Covid-19.

Did Morandi’s example inspire her to paint the same pots for 50 years?

An artist’s experiences can influence their work after a long gestation and without their being conscious of it.

What made her sit down to make another?

is it really lost?

It was a lightbulb moment when I realised that sometimes you just have to make it up.

When I started cataloguing Jenny’s art I wasn’t looking in the right way or seeing what was important. I had to learn to look more deeply.

Every year Jenny would design a special card to send to friends and family.

You have to know what you’ve got.

What a difference a frame makes.

We had had under two weeks to pack the contents of the studio. What have we learned, after storing them for three years?

We thought we knew where we were headed, because we had decided our goal was to put on an exhibition.