exhibiton dartmoor

Maite’s Dartmoor

Event Date: 
04/03/2017 - 10:00am to 25/03/2017 - 4:00pm
Venue: 
National Park Visitor Centre, Princetown

On Saturday 4 March a new exhibition of paintings by Devon based painter Maite Jenner opens at the Dartmoor National Park Visitor Centre in Princetown.

Maite Jenner was born in the Basque city of Donostia (San Sebastian) in 1957. She was brought up in the market town of Beasain some 25 miles inland. Many of her early paintings depict the iconic Basque Mountain Txindoki which overshadows the town in which she grew up. Indeed her maiden name Maite Mendia literally means ‘Beloved Mountain,’ a phrase which perfectly embodies one of her main passions in life - art in the form of...