Mordros: The Sound of the Sea
Kurt Jackson
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This cove belongs to these two crows. Mixed media on linen, 2007.
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Crowdom – rain, jackdaws, fog, rooks, missle. Oil on canvas, 2007.
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We lie on our backs and watch the crows mobbing the buzzards up above. Mixed media on canvas, 2007.
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Campion, foxgloves, sorrel, nettle, bracken, bramble, gorse, navelwort, stonecrop, hogweed, buttercup, stitchwort bluebell. Mixed media, May 2005.
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Pendeen Watch and the Enys. Mixed media and collage on canvas, 2007.
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Longships, heavy seas, high water from Cape. Mixed media, October 2006.
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Land’s End and the Longships on the skyline, pipits in the cove, flowing tide. Peace. Mixed media and collage on canvas, 2007.
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All that glitters and sparkles. Emmets on the canvas, pipits in my ears. Longships floating on the sea. Mixed media and collage on linen, 2006.
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Pond at dusk. Mixed media, September 2005.
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The Children’s Pool, Priest Cove. Mixed media on canvas, 2006.
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Catcher’s Pool, Kenidjack. Mixed media on canvas, 2006.
Kurt Jackson is an environmentalist, ecologist and one of Britain’s leading artists. In his essay ‘The Visions of Kurt Jackson’, published in Granta 102: The New Nature Writing, Mark Cocker writes,‘There is an ecological relationship between Jackson and his paintings that makes them fascinating not merely to a lover of art, but also to a naturalist. It is in this second role, as a watcher of nature myself, that I’ve come to sit with Kurt Jackson over several days. My intention is to watch him as I might study a species of bird, like a rook or a jackdaw. The deep connection between Jackson’s art and the landscape he occupies is my theme.’
Here is a collection of Jackson’s landscapes.
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