Janette Kerr: Extreme Wave Theory Project

I have a new Blog if you are interested in following me. It's for my current Iceland residency in Skagaströnd (Feb and March 2020).  Here is a link to it: https://www.janettekerr.co.uk/blog ...

https://extremewavetheory.blogspot.com/2020/02/new-icelandic-blog.html

I am selling a series of small paintings to help fund my art residency at Sagaströnd in Iceland  If you would like to buy one of the paintings please follow this link to my website where ...

https://extremewavetheory.blogspot.com/2019/12/small-paintings-for-sale-to-support-my.html

--> Snow walk Bright low sun; dark shadows stretch out crisscrossing the fields.  I’ve walked here many times but the snow brings a freshness to the eye. In snow you walk differen...

https://extremewavetheory.blogspot.com/2019/02/snow-walk-lower-coleford.html

Here is a link to a recent interview about me and my work published in the online magazine Creative Boom: Creative Boom interview

https://extremewavetheory.blogspot.com/2019/01/online-interview-jan-2019.html

  Solo Show with Cadogan Contemporary Dec 3 - 21st 2018 for more information go to the link:  https://www.cadogancontemporary.com/exhibition/janette-kerr-north/ Showing new wor...

https://extremewavetheory.blogspot.com/2018/11/north-coming-soon-solo-show-with.html

I will be working in the studio as usual - it will be messy... but it would be lovely to receive visitors and chat. I have lots of new work on the go... from Shetland to the Arctic

https://extremewavetheory.blogspot.com/2018/09/somerset-open-studios.html

Last Saturday I joined a group of people in Frome to participate in an RSA Frome: Street Wisdom event... Given tasks to walk the streets of Frome alone for 10 minutes at a time and think in speci...

https://extremewavetheory.blogspot.com/2017/11/frome-perambulation-and-reflections.html

--> I wake and lie in the warmth listening to the wind bashing about the house.  Woken several times last night as the wind started to make its presence felt I’m in no hurry to get up. Lo...

https://extremewavetheory.blogspot.com/2017/11/shetland-november-16th-walking-in.html

Monday 17/10/2016  8°C, light wind 2m/s, overcast, low fog. Sunrise 10:49 - Sunset 16:34 Early morning we take leave of Pyramiden. In dark grey green sea ruffled by a light wind, I watch...

https://extremewavetheory.blogspot.com/2017/10/endings-1718-october-2017-back-to-where.html

Sunday 16/10/2016  -2°C, 5m/s. Sunrise 10:39 - Sunset 16:45. Late Saturday night we arrive and anchor close to Pyramiden 78°39.2´N, 16°22.9´E. Emerging onto an icy deck in crisp blue...

https://extremewavetheory.blogspot.com/2017/10/16-oct-2016-pryamiden-and-furthest.html

Saturday 15/10/2016  -3°C, 10m/s; Sunrise 10:29 – Sunset 16:55  There’s quite a swell at the entrance of Isfjorden as we take our early morning leave and continue south. We help to r...

https://extremewavetheory.blogspot.com/2017/07/fjortende-julibukta-man-over-board.html

--> FRIDAY 14/10/2016  FJORTENDE JULIBUKTA  4°C, 7M/S. SUNRISE 10:20 – SUNSET 17:04. Morning; grey gloomy light from an overcast sky.  Grey green blue black sea a slightly swelli...

https://extremewavetheory.blogspot.com/2017/07/fjortende-julibukta-wind-blown-boat.html

This work represents my initial responses to the experience of travelling in the High Arctic. It includes drawings, watercolour drawings, photographs and a film & sound piece of the sound of an...

https://extremewavetheory.blogspot.com/2017/06/arctic-air-absolute-difficult-beauty.html

--> THURSDAY 13.10.2016 FUGLEFJORDEN - HOW DARKNESS AND LIGHT ARE BOUND TOGETHER -2°C, 3M/S. SUNRISE 10:11 SUNSET 17.15. 9-10 M/S A pre-breakfast Zodiac trip has been planned; it’s still...

https://extremewavetheory.blogspot.com/2017/05/arctic-post-thurs-13th-oct-fuglefjorden.html

Large works that I've been making over the last few months in my studio on Somerset mixed media on canvas Oil on canvas mixed media on paper Mixed media on paper

https://extremewavetheory.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-arctic-comes-into-my-studio.html

Currently working on a film and sound video piece based on images and film footage I made whilst in Svalbard. This is a collaboration with my son Tom Poole-Kerr, a sound engineer (and more) who r...

https://extremewavetheory.blogspot.com/2017/05/arctic-trapped-air-svalbard.html

WEDNESDAY 12.10.2016 SMEERENBURG 79°43,7´N, 011°00.5´E, 2°C 8M/S, WIND PICKING UP. SUNRISE 10:02 – SUNSET 17:23. I wake early and peer out of my porthole; still dark, there is now 22 m...

https://extremewavetheory.blogspot.com/2017/05/arctic-log-wednesday-12th-october.html

Apologies for the delay in continuing my day-by-day account of my Arctic trip. I have had a drama with my external hard drive which contains all my images and notes. Thought I'd lost all. It is n...

https://extremewavetheory.blogspot.com/2017/04/arctic-blog-on-hold-for-short-period.html

In the last few days I have started a new series of water colour drawings. All based of recent walks in West Burrafirth along Brindister Voe and up on the hills above. This is a place to wander...

https://extremewavetheory.blogspot.com/2017/04/shetland-watercolours-april-2017.html

Off the ferry and into the mist as we drive to our house. Can't see the hills or the voe. Rain hits the windows; a little sun appears and then more rain... Later the hills brighten and the sun s...

https://extremewavetheory.blogspot.com/2017/04/all-in-shetland-day.html

Tuesday 11.10.2016  Ny Ålesund 78°55.6´N, 011°56.4´2°C 12m/s wind changing SW - SE - NE, Sunrise 09:53 – Sunset 17:32   Early morning, sails set, we leave Ny Ålesund under cover of ...

https://extremewavetheory.blogspot.com/2017/03/arctic-blog-tuesday-11th-oct-7-glaciers.html

--> MONDAY 10.10.2016  BLOMSTRANDBREEN  79°00,2´N, 012°13.1´E CLOUDY AND OVERCAST, A DARK BUT BEAUTIFUL MORNING. 2°C, 2M/S.  SUNRISE 09:45 – SUNSET 17:41 A wet foggy start to...

https://extremewavetheory.blogspot.com/2017/03/monday-10th-october-blomstrandbreen.html

--> SUNDAY 9/10/2016 0°C, 5M/S. BLOMSTRANDHALVØYA 78°59,6 ́N 012°04.6 ́E.  SUNRISE 09:37 – SUNSET 17:49  satellite image of our location The light across the far mountains is b...

https://extremewavetheory.blogspot.com/2017/02/artic-blog-sunday-9th-october.html

SATURDAY 8/10/2016. KONGSIJORDEN BAY 79°00'0.00" N 11°39'59.99" 3°C, 10M/SEC; SUNRISE 09:29 – SUNSET 17:58    The sun is rising slowly above a blue/grey sea; daylight is noticeably l...

https://extremewavetheory.blogspot.com/2017/02/arctic-blog-saturday-oct-8th-drill-and.html

--> Friday 7/10/2016 2°C, Ymerbukta.  20m/s; Sunrise 09:21 – Sunset 18:06.  Sea state – moderate; wind speed 7-8, gusting wind, speeds of up to 20 knots predicted.  Grey-green s...

https://extremewavetheory.blogspot.com/2017/01/arctic-blog-friday-7th-october-vrfast.html