Confessions of THE Art Executor

Listing the works in date order for the catalogue made me suspect some were missing.

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?