1992 Born Ipswich, Suffolk
2008- 2018 Morley College, London
2012-13 The Prince’s Drawing School, London

 

Jelly Green (b.1992) is a British – New Zealand painter who divides her time between her studio in Suffolk and London. She has been mentored by artist Maggi Hambling since she was 16 years old.

Her paintings, which are imbued with a deep passion for nature and landscape – whether it’s the Brazilian rainforest where she lived in a treehouse for several months, or the bucolic English garden of her childhood – explore the passion and wonder of the natural world. For the last five years her work has been focused on raising awareness of the deforestation that is occurring throughout the earth, primarily in tropical rainforests. Her paintings have been acquired for private collection throughout Europe, the US, Asia, the Middle East and Australasia.

‘Jelly Green has already established herself as a young painter of distinction. In these new paintings she reveals the beauty and responds to the mystery of the rainforest but equally confronts the horror of its destruction’ – Maggi Hambling 2019

‘…just oil paint doing what oil should: twisting itself into the contours of its subject, becoming leaves, vines, fire and sky. There’s a desperate message behind Jelly’s work – we’re chopping the rainforest down at a terrifying rate — but even so the paintings feel like a celebration of the jungle in all its claustrophobic enormity. If you can, buy one. Otherwise go and soak up the richness of these paeans to the natural world.’ – Spectator Life, 2019
‘Jelly has creative energy in every fibre of her being. She is poised on the brink of everything with an incredible portfolio already behind her’, Christie’s Magazine, 2013

‘Jelly responds with great life-force to our native Suffolk landscape and some of its inhabitants. She is not afraid of paint but rather relishes it, and these encounters are full of discovery. Our eyes, therefore, are opened again to the ageless mystery and spirit of this place.’ – Maggi Hambling 2012