Kurt Jackson

Kurt Jackson was born in 1961 in a town in the UK called Dorset and gained his depth of art from travelling around the world, The genre of work that Jackson follows from is landscape whilst using mediums such as acrylic paint. I became inspired to research about Kurt Jackson because he actually creates his work whilst being outdoors where the location of the landscape is, in relation to this, Jackson uses materials that have been taken and found from the location and uses it on his canvas', For example, Jackson will re create a naturalistic painting onto a canvas of a beach and will use objects such as wrappers or plastics. Furthermore, Jackson is able to create texture as the shape and the object itself has been stuck onto the canvas as he paints over it, I believe that this is a really clever way both literally and meaningfully.



One of his very texturised surfaces

Jackson has an affection for the environment and this is his formal reasoning for wanting to add actual objet taken from the environment into his own pieces, His work may range from having large canvas' pieces to sculpture to then printing onto surfaces, The texture in all of his pieces of work mesmerise me as I believe it is a clever way to provide the viewer with an attachment of realistic landscapes that are presented in a 3D form. As Kurt adds acrylic paint over the top of the materials that he includes from the locations he works from, the acrylic builds upon the shape of the material stuck on top so it creates a washed layer of colour so it does not allow the viewer to recognise the material itself but instead within the actual piece as a whole. Furthermore, the acrylic will only allow the outline of the shape of whatever material has been added to the surface to be shown, this only allows the viewer to acknowledge the lines of it, cleating a dramatic impact on the actual landscape that has been painted onto.

'Step softly, Tread Nicely'- 2012

This canvas was one that brought to my attention regarding the texture that had been built by real materials that were taken from the landscape. To me, this very naturalistic piece involves materials that resemble stones, rocks and pebbles that have been taken from the sand of a beach. Kurt has purposely decided to add the material to this part of the piece to acknowledge the viewer of sand being very rough, giving the viewer a visual sense of how the sand felt. The acrylic paint has been covered with various unknown materials but to me, it looks like he has added tiny grains of sand, I resemble the sand within the piece to represent the sea and water as being choppy and not smooth, if Kurt wanted to texturise the water in the sea as being calm then he would've took an alternative route of creating texture, ways he could've done this may be adding acrylic paint in thick movements with a paint brush. I am very inspired by the way that Kurt creates such realistic landscapes but includes real life objects to resemble the environment, in relation to my own theme of work I want to look at how plastics in particular can create texture, texture that could resemble the background of my collages or images because I feel like after some experimentation of melting plastic, it can be easily manipulated and changed to suit the subject of what I want to build upon.


Regarding my own experimentation of when I looked at photographing abandoned places I realised that the materials left behind placed a huge inclusion with what the viewer is able to see in the image, From the shoot where I visited an abandoned coal mine I acknowledged that there were many pieces of plastic left on the floor, I can actually begin to make links between the types of plastics left as evidence from the landscape in relation to adding these materials to collages or surrealistic images that I create. The types of texture that I will be able to incorporate involve an approach to rough, bold shaped material that could be manipulated into the pieces to suit the theme as well as the subject I am  re creating. Jackson has inspired me to begin experimenting with materials that link to the subject that I am working from to coarse the texture of the surface almost as if the pieces are being brought to life as an acknowledgeable landscape.



In relation to my work of creating surrealistic pieces of adding space themed backgrounds on top of images, I feel like I could be able to add plastics in different shapes and stick them on top of the composition so the I am able to resemble the type of rough texture to the darker colours of the piece.

References:


http://www.kurtjackson.com/News-Page.html
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/379780181047188227/