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Continuing the sea and sky theme but I feel the need to start including people in the scenes again. So this is a bunch of teenagers leaning on the railings above Madeira Drive in Brighton.
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Sea & Sky – Seascape Paintings Exhibition and Commission Presentation
JAG Gallery, Arch 283a Madeira Drive, Brighton, BN2 1PT
Saturday 10th March 2012 from 2-6pm
See it happen: the creative process behind Jacqueline Hammond’s ‘Sea & Sky’ seascape paintings
You are invited to join Jacqueline Hammond, the established South Coast artist, at a mini-exhibition to mark the completion of her latest work: a large-scale seascape commission. The artwork will be handed over on 20th March, 2012, and will be leaving its current home at the JAG Gallery, Madeira Drive, Brighton, where Jacqueline has completed it from her studio space overlooking the English Channel.
Renowned for her strong body of work depicting water in its various forms, Jacqueline grew up on the South Coast of Devon and moved to Brighton in 2006, where she was soon drawn to painting the local sea and skies. Her interest in seascapes has led to several recent commissions in this area, with works being completed from her studio at JAG Gallery.
To mark the launch of her latest seascape, Jacqueline is revealing the creative process behind the painting and is providing an opportunity to ‘meet the artist at work’. Anyone interested in what lies behind commissioned paintings can find out how to brief an artist (on any subject – not just seascapes), turning a ‘dream picture’ into a reality, and imagining / inventing a scene that can work well when displayed in a particular setting or space.
Jacqueline, who likes to depict “life’s rich tapestry”, believes that a completed work can be a celebration, an affirmation of a shared vision, and also a memorial to a loved one or a particular moment – real or imagined.
As part of the mini-exhibition at JAG Gallery – a prime location for the production of seascapes and other artworks, such as the quirky ‘Pebble Head’ series of portraits that use stones from Brighton beach – Jacqueline will be revealing her preliminary paintings, sketchbooks and works produced to tie in with the final piece. The event will give visitors an invaluable insight into the process of working with an artist, from the client’s perspective.
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http://www.jacqueline-hammond.com
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Slug Past the Post
Managed to nip in the gallery and eradicate ‘The Slug Cloud’ as we have affectionately named it! These were my thoughts on the matter last night:
Progress has waned this week. I still wasn’t proud of it, I certainly wouldn’t want to exhibit it yet, despite the positive remarks. The problem with painting ‘in public’ and, although I’m allowed to paint upstairs at the moment, is that you have witnesses to your painting habits and everyone sees those touch and go decisions being made mid painting, mid
flow, expletive moments of spontaneous mark-making that can go either way when you get carried away, or when you’re maybe testing alternative slants or options and seeing how they develop before eliminating the duffers. Even those ‘just enjoying what the paints do’ periods, painting just for the sake of it.
In spite of the sketches and preliminary paintings, because the painting doesn’t have to resemble anything specific and I’m not painting with photos in front of me, there is less emphasis on looking right or wrong and more time to play and develop by going with what works. Although the composition is in place by this stage, one still tests the ground with unsatisfactory parts of the piece, to see where it could go: after all, you don’t want to mess with the bits you like that work.
The focal point of the painting is crucial. I’ve been in a pre-menstrual, overworked with the business side of things state of delirium! And maybe over-submerged in my work, I literally needed to take a step back. In more ways than one. But a bigger studio would help.
I’ve always known it would have to go: the cloud that has so far resembled a crocodile, a rodent, a whale, but ended up as a huge slug. Pretty colours though!! I’d been working on other areas and avoiding starting the boat. I’ve been too tired in my painting sessions to tackle the important bit – the boat – and the slug has slept and slugged off. Back to slugging the kids round tomorrow, difficult even to dip in and scrape it off, wish it was upstairs at home.
