Exhibitions & Texts
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Janet Boulton: Through the Window – STEAM Museum of the Great Western Railway, Swindon.
2019 Exhibition as part of Conversations in Music, Art and Faith – Magdalen College, Oxford.
2018 Exhibition as part of Fragments of Note: the Afterlives of Medieval Manuscripts – Magdalen College, Oxford.
A Seeming Diversity: Working with Watercolour – Swindon Museum and Art Gallery, Swindon.
2015 Garden Works 1985-2012 – Garden Museum, Lambeth Palace Road, London.
2014 ‘Eye Music’ – The Milton Gallery, St Paul’s School, London.
‘Eye Music’ – Keble College, Oxford.
2013 Photographs of ‘The Garden at Spring Road’ – Abingdon County Hall Museum, Market Square, Abingdon, Oxon.
2009 ‘Remembering Little Sparta’ – The Sculpture Court, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh Festival.
2007 ‘Variations on a Still Life’ – The Redfern Gallery, 20 Cork Street, London W1S 3HL
2006 Works 1986-2002 – Said Business School, University of Oxford.
2004 ‘Paper Relief Works’ 1986-2004 – The Redfern Gallery, 20 Cork Street, London W1S 3HL
‘World of Watercolours’ Paintings of Villa La Pietra, Florence 1985-2001 – Park Lane Hotel, London W1
2002 Drawings and Paintings 1990-2001 – The Milton Gallery, St Paul’s School, Putney, London.
2001 ‘Two Gardens’ Villa La Pietra & Little Sparta – The Redfern Gallery, 20 Cork Street, London W1S 3HL
1997 ‘New Watercolours and Paper Reliefs’ – Mercury Gallery, 26 Cork Street, London.
1994 Mercury Gallery, 26 Cork Street, London.
1991 Mercury Gallery, 26 Cork Street, London.
1988 Mercury Gallery, 26 Cork Street, London.
1986 Ardington Mill, Bibury, Oxon.
1984 Halifax House, Parks Road, Oxford.
1979 The Old Goal, Abingdon, Oxon.
1977 Arts Council of Great Britain: ‘Windows and Reflections’ – Swindon Museum & Art Gallery, Bath Road, Swindon, Wiltshire.
1978 Harvest Arts, Amsterdam, Holland.
1967 Architectural Association, Bedford Square, London.
1965 ‘Monoprints of Connemara’ – Everyman Gallery, Hampstead, London NW3
MIXED EXHIBITIONS
2019 Creative Wiltshire: A Celebration of Art in Wiltshire – The Salisbury Museum, Salisbury, Wiltshire.
2014 ‘Pulp…not paper’ Paperpulp Relief Works by Pat Russell and Janet Boulton – Abingdon County Hall Museum, Abingdon, Oxon.
Score: Trace That Sound – The Library of Birmingham, Birmingham.
2007 Demarco’s Festival – Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
2004 Palm Beach Contemporary, Florida, USA.
Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames, Oxon.
‘David Remfry Selects’
Singer Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition
Royal Watercolour Society Open, C21, Bankside Gallery, London.
2003 Palm Beach Contemporary, Florida, USA.
2002 Royal Watercolour Society Open, Bankside Gallery, London.
‘Ian Hamilton Finlay and Friends’ – Pittenweem Arts Festival, Fife, Scotland.
Salon de Mars, Geneva.
International Exhibition of Watercolour – New York Studio School, NY, USA.
2000 Mercury Gallery Artists, London.
1998 ‘Little Sparta’ with Ian Hamilton Finlay and Dave Paterson – The Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire.
1997 The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Burlington House, London.
Cheltenham Open Drawing Exhibition, Cheltenham & Gloucester College, Gloucester.
‘Age d’Or’- The Air Gallery, New Bond Street, London W1
‘Flowers and Gardens’ – The Flying Colours Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.
1995 Royal Watercolour Society Open, C21 Bankside Gallery, London.
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Burlington House, London.
1993 The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Burlington House, London.
1992 ‘The Continental Muse’ – Chichester Festival.
‘A Taste of Europe’ – Guildford Festival.
‘Enchanted Gardens: Save Britain’s Heritage’ – Richmond Gallery, London.
1990 ‘Quieter Voices’ Five Women Artist’s – Scunthorpe Art Gallery, Lincolnshire.
1989 ‘Italian Gardens’ – Leicester Royal Infirmary (with Alex Ramsay).
Contributor to British Library Sound Archive’s ‘Artist’s Lives’ 2005-2009
PUBLICATIONS
2022 Eye Music: Series & Performance. Uniformbooks.
2020 ML11 8NG: Janet Boulton at Little Sparta. The Little Sparta Trust.
2017 A Seeming Diversity. Uniformbooks.
2014 Eye Music Series. Uniformbooks.
2013 Foreground/Background: About Making a Garden. Uniformbooks.
2009 Monograph: Remembering Little Sparta: Watercolours, Reliefs, Garden Works 1993–2009
2004 Monograph: Paper Relief Works
2001 Monograph: Two Gardens: Watercolours
1991 Monograph: Janet Boulton: Paintings 1985–1990
Dear Mercia: Paul Nash Letters to Mercia Oakley 1909-1918. Janet Boulton (ed.). Fleece Press. Wakefield.
FILMS
2022 As It Is Now: Janet Boulton’s Garden – Late October 2021. Absorb Films.
2020 Photographer Andrew Lawson in artist Janet Boulton’s Garden at Spring Road, 5 June 2018. Five Seasons Media.
2017 A Seeming Diversity: An Introduction to Working with Watercolours. Distant Object Productions.
2016 In Conversation: Janet Boulton and Nicholas Dakin-Elliot (Head Gardener) (October 12, 2016). Villa La Pietra NYU Florence.
2016 Garden Works. www.hk01.com
2015 In Conversation: Janet Boulton and Nicholas Dakin-Elliot (Head Gardener) (September 29, 2015). Villa La Pietra NYU Florence.
2015 Foreground/Background: A Day in Janet Boulton’s Garden: Late September 2014. Distant Object Productions.
ILLUSTRATED TALKS
2014 Contributor to an event to celebrate the work of the late Pat Russell – Roysse Room, Abingdon Guildhall, Abingdon, Oxon.
Contributor to A Friend, a Book and a Garden: A Festival of Garden Literature – Garden Museum Event, Petworth House, West Sussex.
EXHIBITION REVIEWS
2010 Bill Hare, Scottish Art News (Issue 13 Spring).
2009 Andrew Lambirth, The Spectator.
Giles Sutherland, The Times (Scottish Edition).
Duncan Macmillan, The Scotsman (August).
Decades: ECA Newsletter (Issue 10 Autumn/Winter).
2007 Andrew Lambirth, The Spectator.
2006 Helen Peacocke,The Oxford Times.
2005 Andrew Lambirth, The Spectator.
2001 Review of Reviews: Art, The Week (June).
2000 Andrew Lambirth, RA Magazine (Spring).
1997 Andrew Lambirth, What’s On (March).
David Cohen, Mercury Gallery Exhibition Card (April).
Elizabeth James, Modern Painters (Spring).
1994 ‘Observations of Light’ – Christopher Andreae, The Christian Science Monitor (June).
Janet Boulton Relief Pictures, The Artist’s & Illustrator’s Magazine (March).
1992 ‘Line and Wash’ – The Artist (April).
1991 ‘In Conversation with the Artist’ – Andrew Lambirth, Artist’s & Illustrator’s Magazine (April).
GARDEN FEATURES & REVIEWS
2014 ‘Heart of Gardening’ – Caroline Beck, Homes & Gardens (September).
2012 ‘Outside Edge’ – Anne de Verteuil, The Garden Design Journal.
2009 Anne James, The Oxford Times (July).
2009 Stephen Anderton, The Times (August).
2002 ‘Drawing on Life’ Erica Hunnigher, Gardens Illustrated Magazine (September).
‘An Artist’s Garden’ – Anne de Verteuil, The English Garden.
COLLABORATIONS WITH IAN HAMILTON FINLAY
2006 ‘Highlights: A Homage to Andre Derain’, Wild Hawthorn Press.
Conceived by IHF, Highlights painted by JB, Photographs by Robin Gillanders.
Cards: ‘Seychelles Stradivarius’, Oranges & Lemons’, ‘Sardine Lugger’.
Print: ‘Thonier’.
RESIDENCIES
2006 Edinburgh College of Art
1988 Artist in Residence, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. Sponsored by City Gallery Arts Trust, Milton Keynes
1981 Artist in Residence and teacher, Pangebourne College, Berkshire
1978 Artist in Residence, Larkmead Comprehensive School, Oxfordshire. Sponsored by Southern Arts
WORK IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS AND ARCHIVES
Acton Art Collection, Villa La Pietra NYU Florence
Collection of the Edinburgh College of Art
Demarco European Art Foundation, Scotland
Isle of Wight Area Health Authority
John Radcliffe Hospital NHS Trust
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Oxford Area Health Authority Archive
Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford
Special Collections, The University of Edinburgh
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre Archives
WORK IN PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
U.S.A, Canada, Japan and Europe