Henrietta Jordan is a British contemporary landscape painter working in oil. Her paintings arise from a deep, visceral response to her physical environment, notably to changing light, seasons and atmosphere. Henrietta’s work has a distinct energy to it, and bridges the gap between abstraction and figuration, offering a fresh, dynamic perspective on traditional landscape painting, always with a palpable sense of mood and place.
At the core of her practice is an attempt to portray reality in a way that liaises not with literal representation, but with feeling and memory.
Henrietta was born in 1979 in Aberdeen. Following a BA Hons degree in French, she studied at Newcastle College of Art, the Heatherley School of Fine Art, and London Fine Art Studios. She has lived, and exhibited in London, France, Singapore, Wiltshire, East Anglia and Scotland and has twice been selected for the New English Art Club annual exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London.
Henrietta lives and works in Scotland where her rich native landscape, as well as travels abroad, inform her painting. The light and colours of Southern Europe are of particular inspiration. She paints with freedom and energy, ‘en plein air’, but increasingly in her studio, where she refers to these plein air studies and memory, to produce larger works.
Influences include Gauguin, Matisse, Hitchens and Doig, whilst contemporary favourites include Tim Braden, Kate Giles, Simon Carter, Annabel Gault and Antonia Showering.
Henrietta’s work is fast building momentum and a strong following. She feels most alive when painting, and believes passionately in the power of art to elevate our everyday experiences, and in the deep connection between creativity and human emotion.
SOLO SHOWS
2019 Villa delle Rose, Singapore
2016 Pond Hall Farm Studios, Suffolk
2014 Pond Hall Farm Studios, Suffolk
2008 The Lennox Gallery, London
GROUP SHOWS
2026 ArtEast Autumn Show, Suffolk
2026 Watermill Gallery Summer Show, Aberfeldy
2025 ArtEast Spring Show, Suffolk
2024 The Watermill Gallery Annual Show, Aberfeldy
2023 Arbuthnott House Art Exhibition, Kincardineshire
2023 Laura Long Contemporary, Bruton, Somerset
2023 ArtEast Annual Exhibition, Suffolk
2022 ArtEast Annual Exhibition, Suffolk
2021 The Watermill Gallery Christmas Show, Aberfeldy
2021 Laura Long Contemporary, Bruton, Somerset
2020 Laura Long Contemporary, Bruton, Somerset
2016 SAS Brushstrokes Art Show, Sudbury, Suffolk
2014 New English Art Club Annual Open Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London
2014 Macmillan Cancer Exhibition, Oxfordshire
2013 New English Art Club Annual Open Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London
2013 Resipole Gallery at the Drey Summer Show, Cambridgeshire
2013 54 The Gallery, Shepherd Market, Mayfair, London
2012 Resipole Gallery, Ardnamurchan, Scotland
2012 Grandy Art, Affordable Art Fair, London
2010 Josie Eastwood Fine Art spring exhibition, Hampshire
2010 Shackleton Foundation Contemporary art Exhibition Duke St, St James, London
2009 ART London, Chelsea
2008 ART London, Chelsea