“Although well known as a small, pretty fishing village, it was into the hinterland, the deep secluded Valency Valley behind the village, that I spent much of my time…”

Kurt Jackson.

All is glimmer and shine this Valency morning. 2021. mixed media on wood panel. 60 x 60cm.

All is glimmer and shine this Valency morning. 2021.
mixed media on wood panel.
60 x 60cm.

Watching the night rainfall. 2020. mixed media on paper. 30 x 30cm.

Watching the night rainfall. 2020.
mixed media on paper.
30 x 30cm.

Valency Spring, slate falls. 2021. mixed media on paper. 60 x 57cm.

Valency Spring, slate falls. 2021.
mixed media on paper.
60 x 57cm.

Valency. May 6.30pm. 2021. mixed media on museum board. 22 x 22cm.

Valency. May 6.30pm. 2021.
mixed media on museum board.
22 x 22cm.

Jack by the hedge, ransoms, stitchwort, dandelion, cow parsley, Valency. 2021. mixed media on museum board. 22 x 22cm.

Jack by the hedge, ransoms, stitchwort, dandelion, cow parsley, Valency. 2021.
mixed media on museum board.
22 x 22cm.

Wet morning, high water. 2015. mixed media on museum board. 23 x 23cm.

Wet morning, high water. 2015.
mixed media on museum board.
23 x 23cm.

Evening’s sun burst. 2022. mixed media on museum board. 22 x 22cm.

Evening’s sun burst. 2022.
mixed media on museum board.
22 x 22cm.

Between Rose Cottage and St Peter’s Wood. 2024. mixed media on Thomas Hardy novel extract. 18 x 22cm

Between Rose Cottage and St Peter’s Wood. 2024.
mixed media on Thomas Hardy novel extract.
18 x 22cm

This exhibition sees Kurt Jackson return to his earliest artistic stomping ground, the Valency Valley, which meets the sea at Boscastle Harbour.

It was here that he cut his artistic teeth, and now, with 40 years of experience under his belt and the philosophy that ‘no man ever steps in the same river twice’, Jackson put nostalgia aside to paint the present and look to the future of a valley so formative in his journey.

August 31 2024 – February 22 2025.
Jackson Foundation Gallery, North Row, St Just, Cornwall, TR19 7LB.

Please check here for seasonal opening times.

Exhibition catalogue can be purchased here.