We have welcomed another 30,000 visitors to our exhibitions at the Jackson Foundation over the course of 2024, while further afield, Kurt has had exhibitions at The Base at Greenham, The National Maritime Museum Falmouth and Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Penzance.

Two new monographs were released this year, Kurt Jackson’s Rivers and Oak, and Kurt was left speechless after being named both an Honorary Commodore by The National Maritime Museum and a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedh for promoting Cornish Identity and Culture through Visual Art and Poetry. Less welcome events were a leak in the Jackson Foundation roof short-circuiting the electrics and Kurt requiring a knee replacement. Both these things seem to be mended though, so fingers crossed…

2024 has seen the Jackson Foundation ramp up it’s educational programme, with students from across the country taking part in cross-curricular workshops with our new education officer. If you or your organisation are interested in finding out more about our educational offering, please get in touch!

2025 is shaping up to be a typically busy year within Kurt Jackson’s orbit, with two new exhibitions at the Jackson Foundation and a couple of (to be announced) shows at other interesting venues. Meanwhile, we encourage you to save the date of March 5th, with Kurt’s Biodiversity the inaugural exhibition at the newly transformed Royal Cornwall Museum Truro (details to follow in the New Year).

We’d like to take this opportunity to thank you for all of your support over the last 12 months, and to wish you a lovely Christmas! We look forward to seeing you all again soon!

For those of you in (or planning a visit to) Cornwall, please find the Jackson Foundation please find details of our opening schedule here.

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Kurt Jackson has been involved with the creation of a Critical Care Healing Garden at Royal Cornwall NHS Hospital, Treliske, Truro, creating and donating artwork to bring a touch of nature to the heavily sanitised medical environment.

A large, previously unused and inaccessible quadrant courtyard below the hospital’s Critical Care Unit is in the process of transformation into a life-changing sensory garden of healing to benefit some of Cornwall’s most poorly patients.

Once complete, medical gases will be directly piped into the garden so that critically ill patients and their families can spend more time in nature. The garden itself, which is located immediately below the Critical Care Unit, will be filled with sensory plants, seating and dedicated areas for patient’s hospital beds.

Jackson has designed and created a selection of bird sculptures to sit on granite posts at various heights to sit throughout the garden. The staggered elevations and siting of the birds is such that some are low enough to run your hands over, but others are much higher so that patients unable to physically visit the garden will be able to capture glimpses of the birds through their window.

One of the project’s early champions and most well-known fundraisers is the explorer, photographer and co-founder of Survival International, Robin Hanbury-Tenison who in the early stages of the pandemic spent five weeks in intensive care with Covid-19 at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth. Hanbury-Tenison credits Derriford Hospital’s healing garden for playing a crucial role in his recovery.

Robin Hanbury-Tenison since has raised around £100,000 to make the project happen.

Robin said: “It’s a sort of recognition of all the wonderful nurses who saved my life and all the physios later who made me fit again, because I really was incapable when I came out of hospital. It’s not just the treatment in ICU that matters, it’s the post-relief care”.

After ending up in a coma in Derriford Hospital – Robin was given a 5% chance of survival or recovery.

He added: “That moment when I opened my eyes, saw the flowers, felt the sun on my face and thought, I’m going to live”.

Robin continued: “Now they’re beginning to understand, really the healing power of nature is a reality. Even when you’re in intensive care, you’re really ill, in a coma and in intensive care like I was, being wheeled out into a garden really makes a difference”.

How you can help:

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust Charitable Fund are running a crowdfunder campaign to help support the project. Find out more here – www.justgiving.com/campaign/CCUGarden

From their Just Giving fundraiser page:

“Early rehabilitation in critical illness has shown to be incredibly important. Inside a Critical Care Unit, patients can lose all sense of time and place as day blends into night and they stare at the same four walls for weeks on end. 

“Our garden will be a place for healing and rehabilitation, not only physical but for the mental and emotional self too. Smelling different scents, the sound of the breeze through the leaves and maybe some water features. 

“It gives people a grounding and a reminder of what they have to aim for to keep them pushing through their recovery and rehabilitation. 

“There is no truer saying than the Healing power of nature and no more so than in Cornwall where our patients are used to the outdoor life and being surrounded by this beauty daily. 

“We want to make sure being in critical care doesn’t take that opportunity away from our patients for long.”

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At a ceremony on Sunday 26th March, Kurt Jackson was awarded an Honourary Fellowship from Arts University Plymouth ‘in recognition of outstanding national and international contribution to the arts, culture and environmentalism’.

The award of a Fellowship is the most significant form of public acknowledgement by the university for outstanding professional achievement in the service of the creative arts.

Kurt said “I am beyond grateful and extremely humbled”.

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Kurt Jackson’s artwork graces the cover of the latest Songlines Magazine.

This month’s issue celebrates 50 years of Glastonbury Festival, looking at the history of one of the world’s greatest events and uncovering what it’s done to support global artists in a feature article illustrated throughout by paintings Kurt Jackson has produced over the last 20 years as Glastonbury Festival’s official artist-in-residence.

You can order this month’s issue of Songlines Magazine here, or at your local newsagent.

You can find a link to Kurt Jackson’s work as Glastonbury Festival’s official artist-in-residence via the link below. 

*UPDATE 22/6/22*

Word has reached us that Kurt Jackson’s Songlines Magazine cover has been nominated for an award.

The British Society of Magazine editors has shortlisted Kurt’s image for June Cover of the Month! It is now up to the public to decide the winner.

If you could spare 10 seconds (we’ve timed it), it would be incredible to win against such stiff competition.

You can vote until 29th June at www.bsme.com/cover-of-the-month.

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Kurt Jackson and his grandson Thelonious took some time out to participate in the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch over the weekend! Did you take part?

From the RSPB “Big Garden Birdwatch helps us monitor how garden birds are faring. Shockingly, we’ve lost 38 million birds from UK skies in the last 50 years, so it really is vital we do all we can to look after our birdlife. As a conservation charity we depend on your support to save nature and to look after places where wildlife can thrive.”

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We have released two new limited edition Kurt Jackson lithoprints, Towards Land’s End (above) and High Water (below). These hand-signed and numbered prints are each a limited run of 200, and are available from our webshop and the Jackson Foundation, St Just.

Lithoprints from our online shop, Kurt Jackson Editions, are delivered in sturdy, recycled cardboard poster tubes.

Tubes are manufactured to be chemical waste-free and are produced from 100% recycled materials. Any waste from the cardboard tubes are re-pulped and reused. The manufacturing process is completely waste free and eco-friendly, using a water-based glue and 100% recyclable plastic plugs.

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