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About the Artist
Jaine Green
Fine Artist — Oil & Acrylic
Jaine Green is a London-born, Hastings-based fine artist working in oil and acrylic. Her paintings are atmospheric landscapes, evocative portraits and richly layered compositions. They have been exhibited at some of the UK’s most culturally significant venues, including Somerset House, the House of St Barnabas and The Hospital Club.
Her work sits within a tradition of expressive, emotionally charged painting, drawing comparisons to the luminous, mood-driven landscapes of the Romantic and Post-Impressionist schools: raw in feeling, considered in craft.
Background
From Screen to Canvas: A Creative Life
Before resuming painting, Jaine Green spent two decades behind the camera as an award-winning documentary film director and producer. It is this background that gives her art its rare depth and authenticity.
Over a career spanning twenty years, Green directed and produced over fifty films and commercials for the BBC, Channel 4 and National Geographic. She won Best Docu-Soap at the National Television Awards and her short film Cherry Cake was an official selection at the Vancouver International Film Festival, a finalist at the St Louis International Film Festival and a Jury Selection at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
— Edgar Degas
A recurring thread throughout her filmmaking was a commitment to amplifying underrepresented voices, particularly women’s stories. Her films tackled subjects others avoided: female psychology, identity, the social pressures placed on women’s bodies and lives. This same fearlessness, the instinct to look honestly and without flinching, flows directly into her paintings.
The Work
Landscapes, Light and the Female Gaze
Jaine Green’s paintings are defined by a quiet, searching intensity. Her landscapes capture the south coast of England: the quality of sea light over the Sussex hills, the brooding skies above the shoreline near her Hastings home, with a directness that feels both personal and universal. Her work echoes the gestural energy of the British landscape tradition, with a palette and emotional directness that recalls painters such as Joan Eardley and the looser, more lyrical end of the St Ives School.
Her portrait and figurative work carries the same unflinching eye she brought to documentary filmmaking: faces rendered with empathy rather than flattery, figures placed in settings that carry meaning. Where her films gave voice to women navigating complex social worlds, her paintings offer a different kind of testimony. Still, lasting, quietly powerful.
Green works primarily in oil and acrylic, using layered, textured mark-making to build surfaces that reward close looking. Each original work is a singular object, made by hand, carrying the decisions and instincts of a lifetime spent in visual storytelling.
Exhibitions
Exhibited in London’s Cultural Heart
Jaine Green’s work has been shown at a number of prestigious London venues, each reflecting the breadth of her cultural standing.
Somerset House
As part of the East Wing Takeover when Film4 brought outdoor cinema to the iconic riverside courtyard, Green’s art formed part of the discover short film programme.
House of St Barnabas
The historic Soho members’ club and social enterprise. A setting whose combination of Georgian grandeur and commitment to social purpose reflects Green’s own values as an artist.
The Hospital Club
The celebrated Covent Garden creative hub founded to bring arts and media together, a natural home for an artist who has always operated at the intersection of visual culture and storytelling.
Why Jaine Green’s Art Matters
An Artist of Genuine Experience and Conviction
Jaine Green brings something rare to contemporary British painting: a life fully lived in the service of visual storytelling, and an artistic voice that has nothing to prove. Her canvases are the natural evolution of an eye trained across two decades of film, shaped by a lifelong preoccupation with how we see women, landscape and the world we inhabit.
Born in London, educated in Chichester and now rooted on the East Sussex coast, Green’s work is grounded in place and in lived experience. Whether you are drawn to her sweeping coastal landscapes, her intimate portraits or the bold, textured brushwork that characterises her acrylic work, you are encountering paintings made by an artist of genuine experience and conviction.
All works are original — oil and acrylic on canvas. Available for purchase and private commission.