Jenny Saville

'Bodies fascinate me. I find having the framework of a body essential. Having flesh as a central subject, I can channel a lot of ideas' - Jenny Saville

Jenny Saville paints portraits and large scale images of women and figures, using thick, layered paint:



Jenny Saville

Rosetta 2, 2006

Oil on watercolor paper, mounted on board

99-1/4 x 73-3/4 inches

by Victoriapeckham



Shift 1996-97 by Hyena-in-petticoats

Scale is important as can be seen here:

Katy Richards, a member of staff at Christie's auction house, Kensington, is seen with 'Juncture' by Jenny Saville, which is expected to fetch 300,000 to 400,000 in Christie's exhibition of post-war and contemporary art, which will be auctioned on 11th February 2009. Courtesy of Copyright Press Association Images



South Face/Front Face/North in Ben's Bedroom Face by C-Monster

 This was used for the front cover of the Manic Street Preachers 'The Holy Bible' album in 1994, and also 'Stare' was used for Journal for Plague lovers in 2009;


'The Holy Bible' front cover for the Manic Street Preachers by Arty Smokes

Jenny Saville also collaborated with photographer GLEN LUCHFORD on large scale Polaroids of herself laid on a sheet of glass called CLOSED CONTACT.

Other subjects include large meat carcasses:

Torso2 , 2004. Oil on canvas, 360cm x 294cm courtesy of wikepedia

In 2010 she had an exhibition of LARGE SCALE DRAWINGS at the Gagosian Gallery, London. They were inspired by Renaissance nativity drawings and are on the same huge scale as her paintings.

Jenny Saville is influenced by other painters such as Lucian Freud, Rembrandt using thick paint techniques such as impasto.