About the Watercolours

Miniature watercolours are Jenny Chapman’s specialty and her miniature watercolour paintings are unique and highly collectable. You are unlikely to find anything similar elsewhere – her style and use of colour is highly distinctive and every painting is completely original. A gallery of Jenny’s miniature watercolours is available on the site – please browse and enjoy looking at the paintings.

Only the highest quality artists’ watercolour paints and papers are used. The precise materials used for each painting are specified on its detail page, but most are painted using Winsor and Newton Artists’ Watercolours, which are still considered by many artists to be the finest available in the world. These superb paints provide wonderfully brilliant and luminous colours which are also highly durable.

All papers used are of the highest artists’ quality, and usually of 140lb weight. Most of the watercolour paintings are on Arches Aquarelle or Fabriano Artistico paper, both of which are 100% cotton fibre mouldmade papers. Arches paper has been made in France for over 500 years and is considered to be among the best watercolour papers in the world. Fabriano watercolour paper is made in Italy and is also of outstanding quality.

The painting techniques employed are the same as those used traditionally in full-sized watercolours (wet-in-wet, glazes, dry brush and so on), but translated into miniature. These tiny paintings are truly durable and unique works of art.

The use of real (miniature) glass in the frames, together with archival quality mountboard at the back, sealed to the frame with miniature paper tape, ensures that these delicate but glowing paintings are fully protected from the environment and from damage, as all watercolour paintings need to be.

The framed pictures are supplied with a gold-plated or silver-plated hanging chain, but can also be displayed on a miniature display easel or in a special display environment.

Each painting is signed and dated on the back of the painting itself (this is not visible when framed) and titled, signed and dated on the back of the mountboard. Each framed picture is then given a unique code number, marked on the back, and a signed certificate of authenticity with the same number is also provided by the artist.