* JENNY MATTHEWS RSW (SCOTTISH b. 1964), LOMBOK SHELL BASKET WITH BATIKS

watercolour on paper, signed, titled label verso mounted, framed and under glass image size 60cm x 51cm, overall size 83cm x 75cm Handwritten label verso Exhibition label verso: Mixed Exhibition January 1998, The Edinburgh Gallery. Note: Jenny Matthews was born in 1964 and grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland. She studied at Edinburgh College of Art under Elizabeth Blackadder, John Houston and Ann Oram, graduating in 1986 with a BA (Hons) in Drawing and Painting. Jenny has lived in France and Indonesia and is now based in Edinburgh with her husband and two children. Jenny has earned her reputation as an accomplished Scottish watercolourist and over the last 20 years her work has been exhibited extensively in the UK and abroad. She has also exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) and Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW). Jenny appeared in the Top 20 of the ‘Savvy Art Investors Guide, 20 Scottish Artists to Buy’, in The Scotsman October 2004 and was the main artist feature in ‘Homes and Interiors Scotland’ magazine Jan-Feb 2005. Her paintings are in the collections of Adam & Co plc, Brodies WS, Hewlett Packard, Ian Rankin and Miranda Harvey, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, Murrayfield Hospital, Paintings in Hospitals, Walter Scott & Partners, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (London) as well as in private collections worldwide.