Janine Creaye has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Fine Art from the University of Northumbria and a Masters Degree from Chelsea School of Art and Design in London. She has been practising as a full time artist since 1983 and is a professional member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors. She has exhibited widely including The Pastel Society, Mall Galleries, London; Cadogan Contemporary Art, Knightsbridge; Beaux Arts, Bath; Alpha House, Sherborne and Christies for the Garrick/Milne Art Prize. She has received Arts Council Grants 4 times, including one for travel to India to make a body of artwork on the subject of martial arts and traditional dance in Kerala. The subsequent work toured throughout England and into Scotland, in theatre and College Campus venues. She has permanent sculpture in public sites, for example Guildford town centre, Buchan Country Park, Horsham and Tilgate parks. Her most recent large-scale sculpture project was for Warneford hospital in Oxford. My work from Polo has developed out of drawings of dance and theatre, impelled by the desire to catch both movement and the characteristics of people and horses in action, at the fleeting moment. The marks I choose to make are very selective in order to retain the vibrancy and life of the event. It is a knife-edge thing to show the essence of movement, yet still include enough static detail to catch the beauty of what the thing can look like. These works are completed in acrylics, charcoal and pastel on pastel paper or occasionally in oil paints on canvas.
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