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JENNY HALSTEAD PS
“Journeying from the discipline of medical illustration
back in to the freedom of fine art is an exciting
process. My work continues to explore drawing, as well
as the excitement of the moment. I am fascinated by form
and colour and their interaction with light on both
landscape and figure, and reflect this in oil, pastel
and water-based media.”
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Jenny Halstead has had a varied and perhaps somewhat
unusual career as an artist. After studying Art and
Design at Sutton and Cheam School of Art, she won a
Guest Scholarship to the Royal Academy Schools, London
while she was training in Medical Art.
She then worked in various London Teaching Hospitals
illustrating medicine, surgery and anatomy, before
becoming free-lance and working on publications such as
Gray’s Anatomy 36th, 37th &
38th editions; she also expanded her
illustrative work into scientific and natural history
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Working in partnership with late husband, a
palaeontologist, Jenny went on to produce numerous books
on dinosaurs, including a series for children. She also
worked with him on projects in the USA, West Africa,
India and China.
In 2001, Jenny established the Whiteknights Studio
Trail, an annual walking tour of Open Studios in the
University of Reading area. She held solo exhibitions in
Henley and London in 2004 and 2005, has exhibited
regularly over the past five years at the Mall Galleries
and elsewhere in
London,
and held joint and group shows in the South East of
England.
Jenny currently teaches drawing and painting
classes in France, Greece and Spain, and in the
Berkshire area, while at the same time working on the
progression of her own work. She has recently been
elected a member of the prestigious Pastel Society (UK).
To find out more about Jenny and her work, visit her
website at www.jennyhalstead.co.uk
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