Kurt Jackson
{{Short description|English painter (born 1961)}}
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| name = Kurt Jackson
| image = Kurt Jackson, Cape Cornwall, January 2014.jpg
| caption = Jackson in 2014
| birth_date = {{birth date and age |1961|09|21|df=y}}
| birth_place = Blandford, Dorset, England
| education = Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art
| alma_mater = St Peter's College, Oxford
| known_for = Painting, drawing
| elected = Royal West of England Academy
| website = www.kurtjackson.com
| spouse = Caroline Jackson
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Kurt Jackson (born 21 September 1961) is a British painter whose large canvases reflect a concern with natural history, ecology and environmental issues.
Biography
Born in Blandford, Dorset, the son of two painters,{{cite web|title=Kurt Jackson - A Picture Of Cornwall|url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/uncovered/stories/2005/may/pictureofbritain.shtml|website=BBC Cornwall |accessdate= 9 January 2016|date=24 September 2014|quote=FACTS: Born in 1961, in Blandford, Dorset, Kurt Jackson was the son of two painters.}} he developed an early interest in natural history and landscape. He studied zoology at St Peter's College, Oxford, but spent most of his time attending classes at The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art or painting in the countryside around Oxford.{{citation needed|date= September 2022}} In 1984 he and his wife Caroline Jackson moved to Cornwall; currently (2014), he lives and works near St Just, Penwith.{{cite web|title= Kurt Jackson: Interview. St Just, Cornwall, January 2014 |url= https://vimeo.com/86696181 |website=studio international via vimeo.com |date= February 14, 2014}}
He paints in mixed media, drawing inspiration from the Cornish landscape around Penwith and elsewhere in Britain and abroad. Appearances on British television include 'Kurt Jackson, A Picture of Cornwall' BBC1 South West, 2005 and 'Kurt Jackson, A Picture of the South West', BBC3, 2005.{{Citation needed|date=April 2022}} In January 2021, he was featured in two television programmes, an episode of Rick Stein’s Cornwall on BBC and the opening episode of Cornwall and Devon Walks with Julia Bradbury on ITV.{{Cite web |title=Kurt Jackson Featured on BBC & ITV |url=https://artistscollectingsociety.org/news/kurt-jackson-featured-on-bbc-itv/ |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=Artists Collecting Society |language=en-US}}
He has been Artist in Residence on the Greenpeace ship Esperanza, at the Eden Project and at Glastonbury Festival since 1999. He has an Honorary Doctorate (DLitt) from Exeter University and is an Honorary Fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford University. He is an ambassador for Survival International and frequently works with Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, WaterAid, Oxfam, Surfers Against Sewage and Cornwall Wildlife Trust.{{citation needed|date= September 2022}}
He is an academician of the Royal West of England Academy.{{citation needed|date= September 2022}}
In 2024, Jackson was made a bard of Gorsedh Kernow for "promoting Cornish Identity and Culture" through his work.{{cite web |title=Gorsedh Kernow names 24 New Bards for 2024 |url=https://gorsedhkernow.org.uk/gorsedh-kernow-names-24-new-bards-for-2024/ |website=Gorsedh Kernow |access-date=12 September 2024}}
Style
File:'An Mor Kernewek' 2003. mixed media and collage on linen. 200x325cm..jpg
The majority of Jackson's work reflects his commitment to the environment and the natural world within Cornwall, although he also works elsewhere in Britain and mainland Europe; recent projects include bodies of work on the Thames, the Avon, the Forth, Ardnamurchan and the Glastonbury Festival series. His paintings frequently carry small commentaries on the scene depicted and show a fascination particularly with the detail of plants and animals within an overall ecology and evoke a calm, spiritual and warm relationship with the landscape, even of apparently bleak scenes. His work has been described as "uplifting" and "transporting"."Kurt Jackson" - Simon de Burton - Financial Times, 20 January 2007 To quote Robert Macfarlane "the bristling of landscape is Kurt Jackson's subject as an artist, and his brilliance as an artist lies in the success with which he represents his subject.""The Earth as it sees itself" - Robert Macfarlane - Recent Work, The Redfern Gallery, 2011
References
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External links
- [http://www.kurtjackson.com/ Official website]
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Category:20th-century English painters
Category:20th-century English male artists
Category:21st-century English male artists
Category:21st-century English painters
Category:Alumni of St Peter's College, Oxford
Category:Alumni of the Ruskin School of Art
Category:English male painters
Category:Members of the Royal West of England Academy