Jenny Saville

Jenny Saville was born in Cambridge in 1970, she is a contemporary British painter. Saville attended Lilley and Stone School now known as The Grove School Specialist Science College, im Newark Nottinghamshire. Later in life she went on to gain her Degree at Glasgow School of Art she attended from 1988-1992, and was then awarded a six month scholarship to the University of Cincinnati. She partially credits Pablo Picasso an artist from the cubist movement, because she sees him as a painter that made subjects as if " they were solidly there.....not fleeting."

Charles Saatchi, purchased her senior show. He offered Saville an 18 months contracts, supporting her while she created new works that were to be exhibited in the Saachi Gallery in London. Saville is primarily known for her large scale painted depictions of naked women. Saville works and lives in Oxford, England. Her paintings mainly consist of nude women , her feminist matter of obese and sometimes faceless women with vast bodies, was influence by her trip to America. It was while she was studying at the university of Chincinnati in ohio that Saville's fascination with the workings of the human body began to influence or be shown in her art work. Most of her work features distorted flesh, high-caliber brush strokes and patches of oil color.

i like this particular piece of Jenny Saville's work because it reaches out to single mums and people that grew up with only one parent even with multiple siblings. this is also the same reason that it catches me because my mum is a single parent just like Jenny Saville's mum was aswell so i can understand and relate to why she would do a painting like this because in a way her mother is her main inspiration for this particular painting. I also like the composition and the stance of the woman in the painting, she has her head held high and you can just see all the pride that she has at that glorious moment of birth.