“I am standing at my easel on the clifftop. At my feet are a few pale primroses, out in front is the sea, the Atlantic in all its continuously shifting, churning and foaming glory…”
Kurt Jackson.
As one of the UK’s most respected living landscape painters, Kurt Jackson has spent a lifetime capturing the thresholds between land and sea, sea and sky.
Sea Flower pulls the focus farther toward the viewer, to a point often overlooked, where life thrives this side of the precipice.
Coastal strips of land have largely escaped the ravages of modern agriculture; they are marginal, precarious and often a rocky or sandy habitat, generally ignored or only used for rough grazing. Some has suffered urbanisation, been built upon, the blight of sea-facing homes on some stretches on the more sheltered coasts. But largely much of the coast has survived as botanically rich and beautiful, where a diverse range of species can cling on. Some of our rarest or least widespread species are found on our cliffs, coastal valley sides, salt marshes and dunescapes.
August 31 2024 – February 22 2025.
Jackson Foundation Gallery, North Row, St Just, Cornwall, TR19 7LB.
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Exhibition catalogue can be purchased here.