Jenny Escritt is a Photographer and Printmaker who lives and works in Birmingham.
After gaining a degree in Fine Art in 1979, where she specialised in printmaking, Jenny developed an interest in experimental photography, mostly using cameras (including pinhole experiments and Polaroid manipulation), and also exploring non-camera based techniques such as painting with darkroom chemicals and hand coloured photograms.
In the 1980s she ran a variety of photographic workshops in Leicester, which encouraged a creative and experimental approach to image making, seeking to develop ways of seeing, and helping some participants develop personal confidence.
In her own photographic work, Jenny has a particular interest in experimenting with the viewer’s perspective, using blur, reflection, focus and camera angle to spur enquiry and evoke emotional response. Content is often ‘every day’, for example: at home, walking, travelling in buses and trains.
After a gap of some years, Jenny resumed printmaking in 2009. She has concentrated on mono printing, using similar reference points to those used in her photography, and experimenting with different kinds of mark making and stencils. Recently she has been photographing the plate itself, before and after the print stage, initially to document the process but then becoming increasingly interested in the image this created in its own right. Jenny is keen to explore these growing interfaces between photography and printmaking.
