“I describe my practice as ‘Painting the Stories of People in Landscapes rather than Landscapes that just include People - there is a huge difference”

Amylou Jennings is a London based figurative landscape painter, living near London. She has a passion for painting cities and the people in them and especially its vibrant life after dark.

She works primarily in Oils on Canvas and has been an emerging professional artist for just over a year. She trained under Natailia Avdeeva ROI for two and a half years on her intensive mentoring programme graduating in summer 2025 with a large Solo show is Chelsea.

She has been three times been selected and exhibited at the Chelsea Art Society Summer Exhibition, the Broadway Arts festival, selected as a finalist for 'The British Art Prize' and being exhibited at the OXO Gallery on the South Bank, and also was the Winner of ‘Plein Air Artist of the Year’ in Cambridgeshire, 2026

Sometimes that means standing on a bridge at 3 am five nights in a row, waiting for that one perfect sunrise. And that’s one of the thrills of en-plein-air painting. You’re not just observing a scene, you’re part of it.” 

London appears often in my work, not as a landmark-driven subject, but as a living presence shaped by light, weather, and passing figures. Rain, reflections, and artificial light are central elements, allowing colour and form to dissolve and re-emerge, suggesting memory, echo, and transience. Figures and vehicles are sometime reduced to gestures, inviting the viewer to project their own experience into the scene and sometimes are the focus of the story the painting is telling

Her nocturnal cityscapes are less about spectacle and more about atmosphere — the quiet poetry of urban life continuing unseen, and the emotional resonance found in moments between arrival and departure, though she now has moved more towards the narrative aspect of figurative painting, allowing the figures space in her works to tell intricate stories.