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'Springs Lot' 68 x 70cm, Pastel, & Conte on Paper, Private Collection. © May 2008
.29th September - 11th October 2008
The Watercolour Society of Ireland - 154th Exhibition. County Hall Dunlaoghaire
Exhibiting Three Plein Air Pastels, sketched directly on location at Glendarragh Farm, Co Wicklow.
Muintir Bhaire, 80 x 90cm, Oil on Linen© -2008
2008
The Sheeps Head and Other Works' - Solo Show
The Catherine Hammond Gallery, Glengarriff, West Cork from 3 - 28th May 2008
In 2006 and 2007, Jean Clyne visited the rugged Sheep’s Head and Mizen peninsulas in West Cork for several months where she walked, sketched and painted outdoors in all weathers. This exhibition features pastels, watercolours, and oils she made as a result of this exploration, and shows the evolution of her study of particular places.

Initially, Jean made a series of pastels and watercolours on site that capture the vibrant colour and light of the changing sea, land and sky. Subsequently her oil paintings, created in her studio, became distilled, poetic interpretations of this dynamic environment. Jean sees the work on paper and oils as inter-dependent. “I need the plein air drawings to create the foundation for my oils. I cannot abstract an oil painting without first having drawn the landscape over time and space. Drawing helps me sense a place.


2007
' A Sense of Place' - Solo show
Access to Arts Gallery, Docklands, Dublin 2 took great pleasure in hosting an exhibition of new work by Jean Clyne. Running from early October, the exhibition opened to a warm reception and consisted of oils, watercolour and pastels. The exhibition closed on October 26th, and in it's place the Winter Group Show 2007 will run until late December.

2007
Awarded the Whyte’s Auctioneers Award at the 153rd Exhibition of The Watercolour Society of Ireland.
2007
Aras Eanna, Inis Oirr, Aran Islands, Co Galway.
Jean Clyne was a guest artist with an experimental Bronze Age casting group, called Umha Aois for their annual symposium on Inis Oirr Island, Co Galway. She recorded in pastel & Charcoal, pit fires dug into the ground to cast bronze age horns, using ancient casting techniques.
2007
Awarded an artist's residency in Achill, Co Mayo by The Heinrich Böll Foundation.

2005
Five paintings were shown as part of 'Contemporary Art from Ireland' in the European Central Bank, Frankfurt. Germany.