This is a 100 page, case-bound, full colour limited edition, containing all of the images from his captivating new body of work. It will be officially launched on March 24th Kurt Jackson has signed 100 copies and they will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. All works from theThames Project are for sale and it is possible to send a pdf image of these to you on request. Please do get in touch with us if we can provide any further information on the book, the paintings or the exhibition.

£30 + £5 p&p

 

The Thames Project

Kurt Jackson is one of Britain’s leading painters, his work embracing an extensive range of materials and techniques including mixed media, large canvases, relief work, print making and sculpture.

Jackson’s paintings are set in places that have been travelled to and explored regularly throughout his life and seen through the eyes of an artist with a deep and rich understanding of natural history and ecology, politics and environmental issues; maybe recording a time, a place and a way of life – a geography where past and present co-exist. He is an artist who is fascinated by both the world at his feet and the universe beyond the horizon.

A dedication to and celebration of the environment is intrinsic to both his politics and his art and a holistic involvement with his subjects provides the springboard for formal innovations.

Jackson states: ‘Capturing a fleeting impression doesn’t interest me. In all my paintings the aim is to convey my feelings and sense of awareness in that particular environment.’

This book documents the latest in a series of Jackson’s projects following the lives and courses of individual rivers, both overseas and within Britain, over the last twenty years. A remarkable insight into the dynamic and spontaneous creative processes of one of Jackson’s projects, these paintings are fluent, dynamic, intimate and immediate, resulting from a working method that is both challenging and intense.This body of work has been created over the last two years; from mixed media pieces both plein-air and studio-based, to extracts from his personal sketchbooks.

‘Time becomes more and more dreamlike – it’s often only possible to know something’s happened or somewhere was visited by seeing the marks I made at the time and then knowing I was there.’ Kurt Jackson