Meet The Artist
Janis Goodman
I am a printmaker and have been working professionally for over fifteen years creating etchings and aquatints, which reflect both my architectural training and my love of both the inner city and familiar parts of the countryside - places where I walk or visit friends. My prints are preoccupied with the repetitive patterns formed by roofs, windows and chimney pots and how they contrast with the organic forms of plants and birds. The work is both detailed and atmospheric using line and aquatint to give tone and shading to the prints. The uniformity of brick terraced buildings are broken up with the existence of people living in the city and is shown through details like lines of washing hung out to dry, gardens or window boxes growing food and flowers. I am attracted to the unusual in the midst of the repetitive and everyday; details which may amuse, enthrall or simply make me look again. I try to avoid sentimentality but focus on the quirky and the irregular.
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DATE OF BIRTH 16th March 1956
EDUCATION
1980-1982 Diploma in Architecture at the Polytechnic of
Central London
1975-1978 Degree in Architecture. 2.1 Cambridge University
EXHIBITIONS
2008 First Impressions The Station Gallery, Richmond
2008 Animal,vegetable & mineral – exhibition at Kings Manor, University of York
2007 Art in the Pen, Skipton, West Yorkshire
2007- 8 “Small print Big Impression” Miniprint Exhibition Leicester and touring
2007 Leeds Arts Fair and Leeds Art Fair aaalite
2006 Christmas Show March Hare Gallery, Ripon
2006 Solo show Leeds Craft and Design Centre
2006 6th British Miniature Print Exhibition
2006 Bianco Nero Gallery “The Garden”
2005 Autumn Print Show Masham Gallery, N.Yorks
2005 Curated show at Stretton Gallery, Hastings
2004 Curated print show Ropewalk Gallery, Barton on Humber
2004 “Open Studio” weekend
2002-3 “Come up and see our etchings” joint exhibition in Leeds Central Library’s Artspace
2002 Print Exhibition Morley College, London
2002 2nd Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition juried exhibition, Canada
2001 Print show at Northern School of Contemporary Dance, part of Spice of Leeds Festival
2001 Open print show Rye Contemporary Art Gallery
2001 “Urban”: Exhibition York City Art Gallery
2000 Open print show York City Art Gallery
2000 “Not the Summer Exhibition” Ferens Art Gallery
2000 “The Idea of North” Leeds City Art Gallery
2000 Solo print show Borders Bookshop, Leeds
1998 Open print show
1997 “In Vino Veritas” Restaurant, Leeds, Christmas print show
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2004 Arts Council England Grant for “Open Wide” joint project with writer Kath McKay producing work about teeth and dentists
2004 Artist in residence at Burton Agnes Hall, Bridlington
2000 Development award for printmaking from Yorkshire Arts’ Year of the Artist Programme
1999 Artist in residence at Burton Agnes Hall
1998 Waterstones Grant to produce “The Little Book of Lice” with writer Kath Mckay
1996 Artist in Residence at Burton Agnes Hall, Bridlington
GALLERIES CURRENTLY HOLDING PRINTS
Glasshouse Gallery, Leeds; March Hare Gallery, Ripon; Leeds City Design and Craft Gallery; Masham Gallery: Ropewalk Gallery, Barton on Humber; Rye Art Gallery, Bianco Nero Gallery, Stokesley