The Bite Magazine

Jenni Willson

eauty is in the eye of the beholder, or so the saying goes,

and Jenni Willson is a young woman who takes that

phrase seriously. Working with forgotten and neglected

items, and environments (like derelict buildings and spaces),

Wilson creates multifaceted, modern and detailed works

that repurposes these abandoned and ignored objects into

something beautiful again. “My works aims to give these

objects back an identity.”

Having studied at an impressive list of art schools like

Plymouth College of Art and Design and Bath Spa University,

Willson knows her stuff and has already successfully shown

and published her pieces in galleries, at trade shows and

online. However, what makes her work so popular and

unique is how one can truly see how deep she goes into

representing these neglected pieces. Her use of working with

textures in old papers, silks, fabrics, etc. all allow her to really

play with the interpretation of what the viewer sees. In the

way she layers these various mediums,she creates interesting,

almost three-dimensional works that really catches one’s

eyes. Her use of bright pops and bursts of colour also create

stimulating spaces in each piece that may otherwise be lost.

All in all her system of using rather random supplies to

repurpose forgotten places and things, all seamlessly fit and

flow together.This mastery enables her to create images that

will touch her viewers with something they might otherwise

have overlooked as old, dingy or decaying.

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