Chelsea School of Art 1981-5 Foundation, BA Hons
Victoria Parker Jervis has been painting outside in the open air for most of her life. She was born in 1963 and spent much of her childhood near the coast in Suffolk, part of the country that has been a continual source of inspiration to her work.
After art college she travelled to America, India and Nepal before embarking on family life and raising children.
Having grown up on a fruit farm she has always been enchanted by the idea of the tree, in its multitude of shapes and sizes. Living for the last twelve years in North Essex, a few miles from Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, she has been drawing and painting much of the local landscape. This has taken her on a journey of exploration, a pathway through a colourful forest which has drawn her in search of the curious. It is the thought of the ancient land, at one time carpeted over with woods and forest, interspersed by rivers and ancient byways that has kindled her imagination. Wrapped in blankets at the start and end of the year or basking in the light of the sun at its height, she has been able to watch the slow progress of time transform the vegetable world with renewed interest.
Her dog Damson is her constant companion.
