Jeka Kemp

Jacobina Kemp (1876–1966), known as Jeka Kemp, was a Scottish artist who was known for her woodcut and watercolour paintings of European landscapes and street scenes.

Biography Kemp was born in the Bellahouston district of Glasgow and appears to have been largely self-taught as an artist but may have taken lessons in London before spending 1903 and 1904 in Paris where she attended the Academie Julian. After leaving Paris, Kemp travelled widely and spent time in the Netherlands, Italy and north Africa.

Kemp worked in Paris hospitals as a nurse-masseuse throughout World War I. After the war she remained in France and had solo exhibitions at the Marcel Bernheim Gallery in Paris and at Warneuke's in Glasgow and also at the Galerie de la Libraire de la Presse in Nantes in 1922. Kemp gave up painting around 1927 and remained in France until 1939 when she returned to Britain to live with her sisters in Dorset and later Eastbourne. Retrospective exhibitions of her paintings in 1977 revived interest in Kemp.