Janine Saul
Textile Artist
1997
Biography
Janine Saul is a London-based textile artist working across printmaking, installation and natural pigment. Her practice explores perception, materiality and the space between what can be articulated and what can only be experienced. Saul earned a BA with distinction in Textile Design from Chelsea College of Arts at the University of the Arts London in 2019. She completed a six-month exchange at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York in 2017.
Her first solo exhibition, She Transient Dance, was at Villa Lena in 2022. She has also installed her work in remote landscapes, including Spirits of the Water in the Palenque jungle, Mexico (2021), and La Madre Amazonas in the Bolivian Amazon (2024). Her work has been in group exhibitions such as Future Stars at The Holy Art Gallery, Athens and London (2023) and The Other Art Fair, London (2024).
Saul’s most recent solo exhibition, Clarity Suspended, took place in London 2026.
Saul has completed residencies at Ohara- Kobo, Kyoto, and Villa Lena, Tuscany. Saatchi Art named her one of its Rising Stars in 2024.
CV
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2016 - 2019
Textile Design BA, Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London
First Class Hons
2017
Exchange Program, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
GPA 5.0
2015 - 2016
Art Foundation, Camberwell College, University of the Arts London
Distinction
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2026
Clarity Suspended, Park Royal, London
2022
She Transient Dance, Villa Lena Rain Room, Tuscany, Italy
2021
Spirits of The Water, Jungle Installation, Palenque, Mexico
Impermanence of the Physical, Hackney Bridge, London, UK
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2024
The Other Art Fair, The Truman Brewery, London, UK
2023
Future Stars, Holy Art Gallery, London, UK
Future Stars (Virtual), Holy Art Gallery, Athens, Greece
2022
Spirits of The Water, in collaboration with La Presencia, Oaxaca, Mexico
2021
Facade, Holy Art Gallery, London, UK
In The Wild, King House Gallery, London, UK
2019
Play, Nike Headquarters, Portland, Oregon, USA
Summer Exhibition, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK
2018
Light Pressure, Exhibited at Premier Vision Paris, France
2017
Falling Seasons, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, USA
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2022
Villa Lena Artist in Residency, Tuscany, Italy
Marciaso, self-directed Artist in Residency, Apuan Alps, Italy
2018
Oharah-Kobu, Artist in Residency, Kyoto, Japan
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2021
Shortlisted for Emerging Artist of the Year, The Artist Lounge, Wells Art Contemporary, London, UK
2018
TED 10 Sustainability Design Principles, TED, London, UK
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2024
Private Art Tutor, Online, London, UK
2021
Guest Lecturer, University of the Arts London, UK
Private Workshop Facilitator, IntoArt, LAB E20 & Copeland Gallery, London, UK
Print Workshop Coordinator, 3rd Rail Print Space, London, UK
Triptych, Curated Collective of Art Practitioners, intermediate schools in London, UK
2020
Technical Print 1:1 Atelier Associate for luxury brands, 3rd Rail Print Space, London, UK
2019
Life Drawing Classes, Intermediate schools in London, UK
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2026
Susana Simonpietri, Guest Curator at Saatchi. Art, Saatchi Art
Jocelyn Silver, The Legendary San Francisco Hotel Has Been Given a Glamorous Makeover by Ken Fulk, Vogue
Sam Cochran & Hannah Martin, Ken Fulk Give A San Francisco Landmark the Gilded Age Treatment, Architectural Digest
Fran Miller, The Huntington Hotel Returns to Nob Hill Glory, Haute Living
Artiq, Sensory art journey at Six Senses London, Artiq
Natalie Murray, Six Senses London, Hotel Designs Magazine
2025
Rebecca Wilson, Rising Stars: Emerging Artist to Collect Now, Saatchi Art
2024
Micheal Hanna, AFA Artists Feature Catalogue and Critical Review, Point Pleasant Publishing
2023
Gunther Michels, Moving Creativity through Screen Printing and Abstract Textile Painting, Vagabundler Interview
2022
Poppy Barnes, A Symbiotic Dance between Boundaries and the Boundless, Between the Art Blog Interview
Bre Graham, Villa Lena: a creative retreat in the heart of Tuscany, Courier Magazine Interview
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2025
Sri Vraja Kishori Seva, Vrindavan, India
Offering Tradition and Textiles, Yamuna & Gangotri, Himalayas, India
Natural Pigments Project, Hind dyes, Jaipur, India
2024
Natural Pigments Project, Amazon, Rurrenabaque, Bolivia
Pigments and Purpose, Quechua Ausangate, Andes Mountain Range, Peru
Art in Tradition, Wilka Community, Sacred Valley, Peru
2023
The Eternal Rose, Marciaso, Apuan Alps, Italy.
Objective Vision, Wilka Community, Sacred Valley, Peru.
Art and Elder Wisdom, Valle De Los Cóndores, Tarija, Bolivia.
Weaving Tropical Fibres, Interior Spatial Design. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
Learning the Land, Mocoa, Columbia
2022
Resin Research, Medicinal Properties, Taurus Mountain Range, Turkey
Natural Material Building, Bring the Noise, Pontoise, France
Wisdom from the Elders, Tribe of Wirrarikas, Potosi, Mexico
2021
Mothership Campaign, Climate Conscious Movement, Wye Valley, Wales
2020
Kinetic Installation Set, Bingo Fury, London, UK
Textile Set Installation, Bananrama, London, UK
2019
Sustainability for Zara Kids, Zara Kids. Spain.
2018
Learning from Light, Naoshima, Japan
Indigo Dye Elder, Master Mr Hiroykui Shindo, Kyoto, Japan.
Artist Statement
Layering is central to my process, allowing past and present to coexist through acts of concealment and revelation. I understand time as something to be held rather than hurried, and experience as something carried rather than erased. My work honours slowness, visible process and marks shaped through living.
Drawing from hands-on research in Japan, Peru and India, I develop natural pigments and combine traditional dyeing practices with self-developed screen-printing techniques. Working across silk, paper and pigment, I move between bold gestures and delicate details. Pressure, impression and repetition allow the material to resist and respond, registering traces of heat, water and wind.
Through these encounters, I seek to invite perceptual awareness rather than interpretation. Subtle shifts in colour, surface and texture encourage viewers to slow down, allowing the boundary between observer and observed to soften. I aim to create a space where uncertainty becomes an invitation to presence.
My work is a constant negotiation with the limitations of language. As a child, I wrote naturally from back to front, legible only in a mirror. My mind has always processed the world in reverse. I use printmaking on silk to translate my thoughts, drawn to a process structured through reversal, where meaning emerges through reflection. In a world accelerating towards certainty, I use this process to slow down and make space for deliberate uncertainty. My prints inhabit disorientation as a perceptual threshold to explore, rather than a deficit to endure.
My practice honours historical textile traditions as living knowledge, engaging with their material intelligence through care and sustained attention. Working with texture, layering and abstraction, I explore tensions between control and intuition, movement and stillness, surface and depth. These oppositions remain active, gathering into coherence through presence rather than resolution.