‘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

BIO
1992- Born Ipswich, Suffolk
1992 - 1999 Early years in Melbourne, Australia
2003 - 2010 Thomas Mills High School, Suffolk
2008 - 2020 Morley College, London
2012-13 The Prince’s Drawing School, London

Galleries

The Rowley Gallery, Kensington, London
Branch Arts
The Maltings Gallery, Snape Maltings, Snape, Suffolk

Residencies
Brazil (2015 & 2016)
Cumbria (2013)
Snape Maltings, Suffolk (2014)
Hedgehut Residency, Suffolk (2016)
Sri Lanka (2015)

Testimonials

‘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

Selected Exhibitions
December 2011 - Peter Pears Gallery (joint exhibition with Conrad Armstrong) - Aldeburgh
March 2012 - Shoreditch Studios (joint exhibition with Conrad Armstrong) - London
April 2012 - 2019 (annual exhibition) - Alde Valley Spring Festival (Group Exhibition) - Glemham
Sept-January 2013 - Kensington Place - London
May-June 2013 - Rootstein Hopkins Drawing Exhibition, Morley Gallery (Group Exhibition) -London
August 2013 - Presteigne Festival, The Workhouse Gallery, Presteigne - Wales
October 2017 - Flipside - The Dovecote, Snape Maltings, Snape - Suffolk
Sept 2018 - The Art of the Tree by the Arborealists-East - Flatford Mill
Sept 2018 - The Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition - Mall Galleries, London
Dec - April - Women 100 (Group Exhibition) - Ipswich
April 2019 - DEVOUR - Gallery@oxo, South Bank, London
June 2019 - The English Garden - Somerleyton Hall
Oct 2019 - Art for Cure (Group Exhibition) - Bankside Gallery, London