Jennie Syson is an artist whose practice engages with relief print techniques on both paper and ceramics, drawing on motifs rooted in mythology, folklore, and esoteric histories. Her recent bodies of work reference archetypal figures such as the wodewose and the green man, as well as medieval mystics and inhabitants of imagined woodland spaces. Her prints articulate a dialogue between landscape, memory, and symbolic narrative, often informed by vernacular flora, fauna, and rural iconography.
She holds BA in Printmaking from Norwich School of Art and an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art.
Her work spans linocut, intaglio, screenprint, and monoprint processes and she has recently begun painting. She is a member of Leicester Print Workshop and an associate of Two Queens Studios. Recent projects include a limited-edition Tarot deck and hand-printed ceramic sculptures. She has exhibited widely, including at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and she was recently commissioned to produce a limited-edition linocut for the FOREST exhibition at Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery.
RECENT PRINTS
Hairy Mary, Linocut Edition exhibited at The Woolwich Print Fair and Harley Gallery Open. 
The Gardener, Linocut, 2024 
The Green Man & The Major Oak, Linocut, 2023 
Metamorphosis, Linocut. 2025 
Greenfingered, Handcoloured linocut 2024 
Lincoln Imp, Linocut. 2023 
Heart Thorn, Linocut. 2023 
Schiehallion, Reduction Linocut, 2025 
Gorgon, Linocut. 2023 
Melangell’s Protection. Linocut, 2025 
Anchoress. Linocut, 2024 
Daphne. Linocut, 2024
RECENT PAINTINGS
FORTHCOMING
ROOT & BRANCH, Leicester Print Workshop curated by Peter Clayton – July 2026
RESTORING PUGIN: Heritage Lottery funded project at Nottingham St Barnabas Cathedral – November 2026
SELECTED PAST EXHIBITIONS
FOREST
Nottingham Castle
24 May to 5 October 2025
FOREST delved into the myth and magic of arboreal art, exploring how this timeless and powerful totem can shape artistic thought and creative practices. Curated by Tristram Aver, through a variety of mediums— which included sound, performance, glass, wood-carving, textiles, film, painting, and photography—this exhibition showcased six newly commissioned works created exclusively for Nottingham Castle, in the company from prints, drawings and photographs from Nottingham’s own Collection. Other featured artists included Arianne Churchman, Tim Fowler, Jelly Green, Jasper Goodall, Yelena Popova, and many more, with strong representation from artists based in Nottingham and the wider region. For FOREST, she created a limited edition of 10 prints based on the myth of the Rex Nemorensis.
MEMBERS SHOW, 2025
Two Queens, Leicester
29 August – 15 September
THE HARLEY OPEN 2024
The Harley Gallery, Welbeck
27 July 2024 — 13 October 2024
PERSEPHONE
The Old Lock Up Gallery, Cromford
20th July – 24th August, 2024
BOUNDLESS
ILKON, Ilkeston Contemporary Arts
May 17- June 04, 2023
SUMMER EXHIBITION
The Royal Academy
June 13 – August 20, 2023
PRINT FAIRS
PRINT FAIR CONTEMPORARY
THE SPACE, NOTTINGHAM CONTEMPORARY
10 – 12 October, 2025
WOOLWICH CONTEMPORARY PRINT FAIR 2025
13 – 19 November Selected for Director’s Cut with Hairy Mary
ARCHIVE
STOCKISTS
- Field System, Dartmoor
- Nottingham Castle Shop
- Salisbury Charter Market
- Unquiet Arcadian
- Unquiet Arcadian Teemill
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