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The landscape and life of Jersey have inspired both local and visiting artists since the 18th century. The art collection contains around 6000 works, mainly paintings, prints and drawings by local artists or depicting Jersey subjects. The highlights of this collection are on display in the Barreau Le Maistre art gallery in the Jersey Museum. The Gallery is named after two families whose generous bequests long ago have helped us to establish the exciting resource that we have today. In it examples of work produced in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by Jersey silversmiths and furniture makers are shown alongside highlights of the art collection.
Works by all of Jersey's noted artists are on show including Sir John Everett Millais. Through their paintings P J Ouless and John Le Capelain have perhaps been the best ambassadors for the beauty of the island's coastline. Edmund Blampied is renowned for depicting the rural life of Jersey and the character of its people. Claude Cahun often used Jersey's landscape as a backdrop to her Surrealist portraits.Find out more about these artists on the following three pages.
Themes in Art, the Barreau Le Maistre Gallery also introduces some of the major subject themes into which artist traditionally divide their work. The most popular subjects are portraits and landscapes.
Any enquiries relating to the Art Collections of the Jersey Heritage Trust should be directed to Louise Downie, Curator of Art.
e-mail: curators@jerseyheritagetrust.org
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