Helen Jackson Art

Boat Chapel - Helen Jackson   Night Sailing - Helen Jackson
Boat Chapel   Night Sailing
Tulip Window - Helen Jackson   Red Landscape - Helen Jackson
Tulip Window   Red Landscape
Circles - Helen Jackson   Crosses - Helen Jackson
Circles   Crosses
  Moon Beast - Helen Jackson
Coastal Home   Moon Beast
Crocodile Rider - Helen Jackson   Twin Birds - Helen Jackson
Crocodle Rider   Twin Birds
Gods Wee Fishes - Helen Jackson   Cosmic Shuffle - Helen Jackson
God's Wee Fishes   Cosmic Shuffle
Easter - Helen Jackson   Easter II - Helen Jackson
Easter I   Easter II
Dancing Monkey - Helen Jackson   Diving Angel - Helen Jackson
Dancing Monkey   Diving Angel
     
     
     
Welcome:
You have arrived at the site of Dorset artist, Helen Jackson BA, based for the moment in the idylic seaside town of Swanage. I originally trained as a textile designer at Winchester Art College hence the abundance of colours and texture in my paintings.

Inspiration:
My work has been developing gradually over many years now.

I think its roots are based in the long Sunday mornings spent in Southwell Minister surrounded by columns and history - pitted stone surfaces, remnants of paint and strings of half understood mysterious words. Combine this feeling with a tatty book of Egyptian frescos I found in a College Library – all earthy colours, worn surfaces and strange magical animals whose stories and meanings I did not know.

I have always sort out the peaceful space that you can not put into words but that a picture (or music) can easily express. The moment in a dream where you catch a glimpse of something a meaning, suddenly in focus, then gone.

I don't think it matters if you understand the original truth, but that you sense it and interpret it through your own experience. That is what I am trying to do - to create my own visual mythologies and fairy tales.

Techniques:
Over the years I have been playing with whatever materials come to hand - hence the mixed media description. My images develop over time - paint surfaces added, layer upon layer, then worn away to give the impression of time passing - hopefully modern treasures.

Favourite artists:
Chagall for his other worldlyness
Klee for his experimentation and intellectual playfulness
Paula Rego for her strength

I hope you enjoy looking at the images in the gallery - please feel free to let me know what you think!

Helen Jackson's Previous Exhibitions:

Mulberry Gallery, Swanage, Dorset
Dorset Art Week 2008
Hadfield Fine Arts, 2008
Purbeck Art Week 2007
Dorset Art Week 2006
Arts courses for Somerford School
Square Mile, Art Outdoors
Woven Wishes, Weaving
Dorset Art Week 2004
Arts courses for Sure Start, Weymouth
Smashing Plates, Mosaics
Making Faces, Papier-mâché
Square Mile I & II, Art Outdoors
Dorset Art Week 2002
Dorset Art Week 2000
Art Place Art Consultancy (St Mark’s Hospital, Harrow)
Arundel Gallery Trail
Four Seasons Gallery, Wimborne
Art for the Ark, Mere
The Laurel Keeley Gallery, Exeter
Fisherton Mill, Salisbury
Art Works, Bradford on Avon
Stockbridge Town Hall
Contemporary Art Gallery, Devises
The Happening Gallery, Bristol
The Medieval Hall, Salisbury
Walford Mill Art Centre, Wimborne
The Abbey, Sutton Courtney, Oxon

© Helen Jackson 2009