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