Where are they Now? - Jenny Betts

Guest blog post written by Jenny Betts, all images appear with her permission, thanks Jenny!

 

Whilst Jenny was a student at TRC she was part of the team which came first for the 2012/13 Forgotten Spaces Competition and also won a place for her work in the Sixth Form Colleges Parliamentary Exhibition. 

Jenny Betts

University: Newcastle University

Course:  Architecture

 

 

A2 Fine Art

Straight to university

Fine art helped me an unbelievable lot, especially when we get fine art lecturers in and get told to do experimental drawings of a space and draw our feelings towards it. The experimentation that we did during A level prepared me a lot, compared to others who had just come straight from A level courses which weren’t art (or just not as good as TRC haha - thank you Bev and Sarah). There’s a lot of observational drawing involved in my course - especially in the first year, but there’s also lots of technical drawing involved as well, so get used to different line weights, it’s the difference between a fail and pass. There’s also a lot of good old fashioned model making, which means we’re still looking in skips - that skill never leaves.

I would love to have my name stamped over loads of important buildings and structures and basically be the next Norman Foster whilst having all my structures be completely eco friendly and sustainable and save the planet. Aim high!

 

First project I handed in - Measured drawings

 

Non-life drawing class

 

 

VERY rough first model in second project, (I would show you the slightly more impressive finished version however I’m not there yet)