Jelly Green, a 28 year old painter from Suffolk, started her art career as a teenager, having been mentored by Maggi Hambling since the age of 16.

Since then, Green has developed her own style of oil painting and has become known for her detailed, vibrant works created in response to the negative effects of humanity on the natural world. Regularly inspired by the environments around her, Green’s work has covered both the English countryside where she grew up as well as more exotic landscapes, with the last few years of her work focused on the rainforest in South America, where she spent two months in 2016 completely isolated from other people in a treehouse in central Brazil. After witnessing the destruction caused by mass deforestation first hand, Green returned to the UK resolving to help in some way and last year launched her first solo London exhibition at The Oxo Gallery, selling her paintings to raise money and buy a patch of Brazilian farmland to preserve as rainforest.