Jenny Bishop Heaton (aka Virginia) is an active and proficient artist in Metro Atlanta. She works with enthusiasm and dexterity in a variety of media – painting, drawing, printmaking and creating figurative reliefs – often in combination. See Works on Canvas and Works on Paper listed above. 

 

Throughout childhood with encouragement by art teachers Jenny thrived in art exploration. Even then her art won awards. At Auburn University she earned a BFA studying graphic and fine arts with a concentration in figure drawing. She produced a thesis in fashion illustration. Then furthered her education with graduate studies in psychology and education at Georgia State University. Her varied creative interests include a fascination for studying and drawing floor plans. She created house plans to-scale for her current home with final plans and architectural elevations professionally executed by Walker Candler, Atlanta architect. Jenny, family and friends love the welcoming warmth the home exudes.

 

Jenny has lived in forested areas much of her life and draws inspiration from nature’s curvilinear lines, biomorphic shapes and myriad colors. She has taught and continually studies art, most recently with California artist Robert Burridge, and Georgia artists Gena Brodie Robbins, Helen DeRamus and Leslie Newman. She enjoys taking part in juror-selected-art shows. Anderson Arts Center, Dalton Creative Arts Guild, Cobb Arts Alliance, Tannery Row Artist Colony and Quinlan Visual Arts Center are among art centers whose jurors selected Jenny’s works for awards. A multi-media piece was chosen by the Hudgens Center for the Arts for their permanent collection. She has had numerous one-person shows, including a solo show in the Main Gallery of Dalton Creative Arts Guild. Other one-person shows are listed under Solo Exhibits. Her art is in collections in the US, Japan, The Netherlands, India and Denmark.

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Jenny, her artwork and art processes are featured in the online magazine

The Grapevine Art and Soul Salon.

https://www.barbaraknott.net/GV20presentationsJennyHeaton.html

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