Haidee-Jo is a full-time professional artist known for painting gardens, landscapes and seascapes 'en plein air'. Vice President of the Royal Institute of Oil painters (VPROI) and an elected member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists (RSMA) her work can be seen each year at the Mall Galleries in London in these prestigious society exhibitions.

 

  As well as a busy painting life, Haidee-Jo is an author of two books on oil painting and an editorial consultant for The Artist magazine, alongside David Curtis ROI RSMA. Her first book, ‘Vibrant Oils’ (published by Search Press), has been reprinted in Spanish, Italian, French and Chinese. Her second book 'Plein air painting in Oils' has been printed in English and Russian language editions. She has produced two popular DVDs with APV films which demonstrate her painting process en plein air.

 

  Although oils are very much her preferred medium, in the 1990’s Haidee-Jo produced a large body of work for the Encyclopaedia of Watercolour Techniques and is an avid sketcher. In recent years she has been invited to judge UK and international plein air events, after winning many prizes for her work which features fresh and vibrant brushwork coupled with keen drawing and observational skills.

 

  Haidee-Jo gained a degree in illustration following an art foundation course and graduated in 1994. She has been exhibiting and teaching ever since, in recent years having cut back on teaching commitments to focus on painting and writing. She believes very much in continuing to grow and develop, all the while striving to express her personal voice in paint and to do so more and more succinctly.

 

  ‘My work is a celebration of light filled moments revealed in rich and vibrant oil paint using my personal visual language of fresh and direct brushmarks. Painting en plein air is central to my practice but I am equally at home working from a model, still life or interior. I find beauty in the ordinary, mundane and intimate rather than the grand vista. Coastal locations, domestic interiors and gardens and allotments provide me with rich and endless subject material.

 My approach is one of simplicity and economy, striving to make every mark count in my earnest pursuance of capturing the poetry of a fleeting effect of light.’

 

 

2024 The Le Clerk Fowle medal for an outstanding group of paintings at the Royal Institute of Oil painters exhibition

 

2024 The spirit of Rockport award at the Cape Ann Plein Air event, Massachusetts

 

2024 The Artists Choice Award at Forgotten Coast en plein air, Florida

 

2024 Third prize in the Quick Draw at Forgotten Coast en plein air, Florida

 

2024 Finalist in the Almenara Art Award, Cordoba, Spain

 

2023 The Menena Joy Schwabe Award for an outstanding oil painter at the Royal Institute of Oil painters exhibition

 

2023 Bronze award at Art in the Open, Ireland's plein air festival

 

2022 The Architecture Award at the Laguna Plein air invitational, Laguna Beach

 

2020 First place in the Oil painters of America wet paint competition international category 

 

2019 Winner of the Dry Red Press Award at the Royal Institute of Oil painters exhibition

 

2019 Winner of the Great Art Award at Patchings art centre/The Artist exhibition

 

2019 The Artist exhibition award

 

2018 The Dartington crystal chalice at the Royal Institute of Oil painters

 

2017 Artists choice award at the Paradise Paint Out, Florida

 

2016 Winner of the Mall Galleries Bookshop Greetings Card Award, Royal Society of Marine Artists 

 

2016 Winner of the Great Art Award at The Artist exhibition

 

2015 Winner of the Great Art Award at The Artist exhibition

 

2014 First prize winner at the Paint Out Norwich invitational 

 

2014 Rosemary brushes award at A brush with the broads event

 

2014 First prize at the Buxton Spa prize plein air competition

 

2014 The Artist purchase prize award selected by Ken Howard RA

 

2014 The Artist exhibition award 

 

2014 Pro Arte award at The Artist exhibition

 

2013 The Royal Talens prize in the The Artist exhibition

 

2013 Honourable mention award at the Forgotten Coast en plein air Quick Draw

 

2012 Winner of the Royal Institute of Oil painters portrait painting event

 

2012 Winner of the Making a Mark plein air plus blog award

 

2012 Winner of The Artist magazine charity Christmas card competition.

 

2012 The Pro Arte prize and The Artist exhibition award at The Artist exhibition award

 

2012 Awarded ‘Artist of the Year 2012’ by the SAA, Society of All Artists

 

2006 Young Artist’s award at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters finalist

 

2005 Young Artist’s award at the Royal Institute of Oil painters finalist

 

2005 Willoughby Memorial Trust open exhibition professional category first prize

 

1998 Second prize in the Winsor & Newton Young Artists Award, Royal Institute of Oil Painters

 

1997 Third prize in the Winsor & Newton Young Artists Award at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters exhibition

 

1994 Winner of Channel 4’s The Big Breakfast portrait competition