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 is one of 30 artists who have decorated a wooden belly board as part of an incredible campaign which sees the boards go onsale via an online auction in aid of environmental charity Surfers Against Sewage.

Surf Wood for Good offers free wooden belly board hire as a positive alternative to cheap, environmentally-toxic polystyrene bodyboards that are so often discarded on beaches around the country.

The auction goes live on Wednesday 15th June (register for auction here), and you can view the boards at Brewhouse Cafe, St Ives between 17th June and 1st July 2022.

“Like anyone of my generation the sight and feel of one of these plywood body boards takes you straight back to childhood. In my case to the 60’s and 70’s on Polzeath and Trebarwith beaches with friends and family. Plywood is also something I paint on often – wood panels of sustainable birch ply; for my seascapes and landscapes and logically that’s what I had to do with this board. I also added a few layers of the beach itself – pebbles and sand from three favourite foreshores in Cornwall and then some of that fishing industry rope that seems to be the curse of our tidelines, tangled around the rocks and in the weed– “tied by the tide”. A big sea, plenty of weather, the mordros on the wind, the sun showing itself, what could be better?” – Kurt Jackson 2022

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