New paintings for December Show

Here's a sneak peek at some of my new work I'm preparing for the December Show at 14-18 Gallery in Leigh.

This new process involves mixing the paint with various quantities of turpentine and pouring it onto the canvas which is on the floor, until it is saturated and flooded. Varying the consistency of each colour application results in an interesting transparency, texture and 'pooling' of pigment on the surface.

Paintings on the floor...

So lately I've been experimenting with a new way of working. Faced with the prospect of a weeks worth of layering up and scraping back, I decided to take a new approach and throw a bit (a substantial amount) of turps over the surface
with some freshly squeezed paint. This is the result so far, I'm pleasantly surprised!

I've been away...

And a lot has happened in that time. I now have a studio space with Castlefield Gallery and exhibited my work in the launch show, check out some images of the show here: http://www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk/news/new-art-spaces-leigh-launch-exhibition/
https://www.facebook.com/1418bradshawgate?fref=ts

And better still, come and pay us a visit at our new gallery and see the work on show.

I am in the process of making some new work on a slightly smaller scale than my previous paintings, more
progress pictures will be coming soon!

Paintings for sale

Current works for sale

                                         Abigail Jackson, Untitled Orange Painting (2012) Oil on canvas. 300 x 150cm

                                                        Please contact for price details.

Abigail Jackson, Vesta (2011) Oil on canvas. 244 x 170cm

Please contact for price details

Abigail Jackson, Untitled diptych (2012) Oil on canvas. 300 x 200cm

Please contact for details on price.

Abigail Jackson, Vertical Blues (2012) Oil on canvas. 244 x 170.

Please contact for details on price.

Contact details: abigail_jackson.fineart@hotmail.co.uk

The Modern Arts Notes Podcast: Piece on two of my favourite contemporary abstract painters Jonathan Lasker & Shirley Kaneda

http://blogs.artinfo.com/modernartnotes/2012/11/the-modern-art-notes-podcast-jonathan-lasker/

My favourite Quotes

“To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”

- Aristotle

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. "

- Will Rogers

Snippet of inspiration: Matisse, Mitchell and Ayres.

As a painter I take inspiration from a variety of artists, from Ian Davenport to Shirley Kaneda.  And as an abstract painter with a focus on the formal histories of abstract painting, it is no surprise that my attention is continually focused on the painters of the 1940's and 50's. 
In my series of 2012 paintings, the work of Wlodzimierz Ksiaz was hugely influential. I became fascinated with the processes adopted by Ksiaz, as well as the characteristic thick impasto of his paint application.
Below outlines some of my favourite artworks that informed my paintings in 2012.

“Although there is no specific place, nature is more ‘really’ present than in most representational paintings. It is because of the ‘reality’ of the details. The details, shaped like brushstrokes, have committed shapes, and the colors have committed texture, hue, and substance. They are not muddy, which has nothing to do with the presence or absence of browns or grays, but with their being clearly what they are. Miss Mitchell has been attentive to outside nature and her inner experience, and she gives you something real.” Fairfield Porter on Joan Mitchell. From Reality and the Museum, 1961.

Henri Matisse, La Tristesse du roi, 1952.

Gillian Ayres, Maritsa