JULES JACKSON and LESLEY MCLAREN

17 August - 7 September 2024

JULES JACKSON

My work is inspired by the sea, skies and landscape of Knapdale, Argyll. My family has a small cottage at Kilmory Bay which looks over the Sound of Jura onto the Paps of Jura. I am based in Glasgow but I spend as much time as I can in Argyll walking, exploring, absorbing and storing up ideas for paintings.

I use oil paint to express my experience of the sea, the sky, and the land in-between. My painting process is intuitive and is informed by what I call my ‘heart response’ or ‘felt-sense’, my internal landscape’s reflection on the external landscape, as opposed to a striving for a figurative or literal depiction. In the work I am investigating a visual language, using colour, texture and mark-making to convey a powerful elemental energy. I am trying to capture an expansiveness, a spaciousness or other worldliness, the ephemeral quality of the ever-changing light, the weather, my emotional response, and the magic that this remote, largely unpopulated landscape elicits in me. I am inviting the viewer to enter the space I have created and reconnect with their own experiential memories of being surrounded by the vastness of nature.

In my paintings I am aiming to present a sense of isolation and wonder, a remoteness associated with the Romantic landscape painting tradition. I am interested in the 18th Century concept of the Sublime, the sensation we experience when confronted by the immeasurable power of natural forces or with the boundlessness of nature. My inspiration is also informed by my experiences in meditation: glimpses of spaciousness and limitlessness, alongside the flow of interconnectivity of the universe within space and time.

Jules Jackson
July 2024

The Colours that Murmur in the Sky oil on canvas 80 x 80 cm £1800 Cobalt Violet Glow oil on canvas 80 x 80 cm £1800 Step Into the Light oil on canvas 80 x 80 cm £1800 High in the Sky oil on canvas 80 x 80 cm £1800 The Heart of the Matter oil on canvas 80 x 80 cm £1800 Imbued with Love oil on canvas 80 x 80 cm £1800 The Headiness of the Summit oil on canvas 80 x 80 cm £1800 The Clouds are the Catchers of Dreams oil on canvas 50 x 100 cm £1200 The Heavy Weight of Beauty oil on canvas 50 x 100 cm £1200 Kilmory Bay Resting oil on canvas 50 x 100 cm £1200 The Breeze Brings with it the Lightest Touch oil on canvas 50 x 100 cm £1200 Light Breaks Through oil on canvas 50 x 100 cm £1200 Blood Red Hope for Tomorrow oil on canvas 50 x 100 cm £1200 Gentle Violet Clouds oil on canvas 50 x 100 cm £1200 Warmth on the Horizon oil on canvas 40 x 40 cm £600 Brilliant Rose Cloud oil on canvas 40 x 40 cm £600 Magenta Light Flows oil on canvas 40 x 40 cm £600 The Headiness of the Summit oil on canvas 40 x 40 cm £600 Sunset Over Jura oil on canvas 40 x 40 cm £600 SOLD Eventide Over The Sound oil on canvas 40 x 40 cm £600 Last Light of the Day oil on canvas 40 x 40 cm £600 Rose on Teal oil on canvas 40 x 40 cm £600

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