Jenny Saville Influence

A great abstract artist, Jenny Saville was born on May 1,1970 in Cambridge, England. Throughout Saville's childhood her family moved a lot because of her father. Her father was an educationist and his work moved her family to different parts of the country. Saville's interest in painting developed at age eight. Her interest sparked when her mother gave her a broom cupboard as a her own studio. Her mother was not the most important influence; her uncle Paul Savile was. Paul Saville was both a painter and a historian. Paul supported Jenny and her art work by taking her to Holland. It was there in Holland where Jenny first fell in love with the idea of large paintings. Jenny paints large human bodies on large canvases. The large human bodies are