Jennifer's work focuses on the wild and dramatic Exmoor coastline in North Devon. It has a firm representational basis, yet utilises simplification and intentional mark-making to communicate the experience of standing in the landscape. She uses oil paint to form powerful compositions, and exploring shape and silhouette. Her work documents the fleeting moments she experiences outside: a striking of light; a monolithic cloud formation; the play of weather.

Jennifer Schamotta (nee Evans) was born in 1985, grown in Somerset and after a long spell in Brighton has now settled in North Devon. 

Jennifer Schamotta ~ Artistic CV

Awards:

Finalist in the Holly Bush Emerging Woman Painter Prize 2021

The Ken Doughty Prize for Excellence in Chosen Medium at the Westward Ho! & Bideford Art Society 98th Open Annual Exhibition, 2020

The Lionel Aggett Award at the South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts Annual Open Exhibtion, Exeter, 2018

The Pegasus Art Award for Best Work in Oil at the South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts Annual Open Exhibtion, Exeter, 2017 


Membership:

Exhibiting Member of the Westward Ho! and Bideford Art Society

 

Exhibitions:

Royal Society of Marine Artists Open Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, 2025

The South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts Annual Open Exhibition, Exeter, 2025

Westward Ho! & Bideford Art Society 101st Open Annual Exhibition, Burton Gallery, 2025

RNLI Open Art Exhibition, Instow, 2025

Studio Kind Open Exhibition, 2025

‘Spring into Summer’ Group Exhibition, North Devon Arts, Gallery, Barnstaple Museum, 2025

Tapeley Park and Gardens, Group Exhibition, with Westward Ho! and Bideford Art Society, 2025

Westward Ho! & Bideford Art Society 101st Open Annual Exhibition, Burton Gallery, 2024

Aluna Collective Annual Exhibition, Studio Kind Gallery, Braunton, 2023

Westward Ho! & Bideford Art Society 101st Open Annual Exhibition, Burton Gallery, 2023

The Holly Bush Emerging Woman Painter Prize Finalists Exhibition, (now known as the Women in Art Prize), Lauderdale House, London, 2022

The Holly Bush Emerging Woman Painter Prize Finalists Exhibition, (now known as the Women in Art Prize), Online, 2021 

Royal Society of Marine Artists Open Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, 2021

New English Art Club Open Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, 2021

Westward Ho! & Bideford Art Society 99th Open Annual Exhibition, Burton Gallery, 2021

JP Art - Online Winter Exhibition 2020

JP Art - Online Group Exhibtion : June - July Winter Exhibition 2020

Westward Ho! & Bideford Art Society 98th Open Annual Exhibition, Online, 2020

Friends of the Burton Open Exhibition, The Burton Gallery, Bideford, Dec 2019

The South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts Annual Open Exhibition, Exeter, 2019

RNLI Open Art Exhibition, Instow, 2019

Westward Ho! & Bideford Art Society 97th Open Annual Exhibition, Burton Gallery, 2019

The Bath Society of Artists Annual Open Exhibition 2019

Ilfracombe Art Trail; 2019

North Devon Arts Spring Exhibition, White Moose, Barnstaple, 2019

JP Art Gallery, Blackheath, London, 2019

Polly Skye Gallery, Lynton, 2019

Friends of the Burton Open Exhibition, Dec 2018

The South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts Annual Open Exhibtion, Exeter, 2018

Solo Exhibition ‘Time and Tide’, The Courthouse, Wiveliscombe, 2018

Westward Ho! & Bideford Art Society 96th Open Annual Exhibition, Burton Gallery, 2018

‘Celebration’, North Devon Arts Summer exhibition, July 2018

Gallery at 500ft, Lynton, Exmoor, 2018

New Year, New Work, North Devon Arts, Broomhill Art Gallery, Jan 2018

Friends of the Burton Open Exhibition, Dec 2017

The South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts Annual Open Exhibtion, Exeter, 2017

The Royal West of England Academy 165th Annual Open Exhibition, RWA, Bristol, 2017

Westward Ho! & Bideford Art Society 95th Open Annual Exhibition, Burton Gallery, 2017

Solo Exhibition ‘Scape’, Lynmouth Manor; 2017

Wabasso Gallery, North Devon; 2016-2017

Ilfracombe Art Trail; 2016

North Devon Art Trek; 2016

Art and Medicine Exhibition, Brighton Medical School; 2011

Group Exhibition, Stark Gallery, Canterbury; 2010

Io Gallery, Brighton; 2009 – 2010

Storm at the Arts, Cambridge 2009

The Neville Pundole Gallery, Folkestone; 2009

Artists Open Houses; Brighton Festival; 2009

Artists Residence, Brighton; 2009

The Art House, Westbourne, West Sussex, 2008

Blue, Nottingham; 2007

Sherwood Art Fair; 2007

Rook Lane Chapel, Frome, Open Arts Competition; Feb-March
2006

Dulwich Art Fair, Dulwich College: London; June 2006

Chelsea Art Fair, Chelsea Town Hall: London; April 2006

Victoria Gallery, Bath: The Bath Society of Artists Centenary Exhibition; 2005

The Black Swan Gallery, Frome, Frome Art Society Exhibition; 2005

The Black Swan Gallery, Frome, Frome Art Society Exhibition; 2004