Biography
Jeanne Masoero (b. London, UK 1937) spent her childhood in Italy but retuned to London to study at Goldsmiths School of Art, London, taught by Kenneth Martin, Sam Rabin, and Ivor Roberts-Jones (1956-59); and at the Slade School of Fine Art, taught by William Coldstream, Stanley Jones, and Ernst Gombrich; and attended courses at the Bartlett School of Architecture (University College London) (1960-63). In 1964 the Rome & Abbey scholarship took her to Greece and the Aegean Islands. She initailly worked as a member of the cartographic design team in the Architects and Town Planners Department of the Greater London Council (1964-67) and then taught at art schools between 1965 and 2000. Masoero said that she regarded herself “as an abstract painter first and foremost”. She participated in many group shows including included Young Contemporaries (1964); British Painting ’74, Arts Council at Hayward Gallery (1974); Portraits & Paintings, Warehouse Gallery (1978); and Critics’ Choice – New British Art, Christie’s, London (1993). Angela Flowers Gallery, London, who represented her, gave her solo several exhbitions (1971, 1972, 1974, 1982 and 1985). She also held, amngst others, Basis for Light – Works with Paper 1976-1979 at ICA, London and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (1979) and Roads, Sky – Jeanne Masoero Paintings, Gardner Centre for the Arts, University of Sussex (1981); Models of Infinity, Retrospective 1971 – 2002, Towner Museum and Art Gallery, Eastbourne (2002); and, more recently Invisible Cities: a Mayan Journey (2015), sites she had originally visited between 1976-79.
