We are lucky to live in the beautiful and inspiring landscape of the Somerset Mendip Hills. Jackie is a painter in oils and pastels and Roland is a potter in stoneware and porcelain. We exhibit in the West Country in galleries and in group exhibitions.
I love the play of light in the natural landscape. My free and rapid brush work expresses a harmony with scenes which are timeless appearing as renewed ever changing shining moments in nature’s work, powerful and independent with an existence and life force unaffected by humanity.
I am inspired by natural history, texture, movement and growth. These are my sources for a fusion of clay into lively ceramics.
twilight beach II
Jackie specialised in art at teacher’s Training College in Exmouth. She has taught in primary schools in England and Australia, enjoying working with children in the art field.
In recent years she has painted seriously in pastel and in oils. She is inspired by the play of light on the landscape, observed originally in Cornwall, and more recently in Scotland, the Brecon Beacons, Pembrokeshire and the countryside near Bath.
Jackie exhibits widely in the West Country and also with two groups, Trinity (photographic, oil, and ceramic artists) and New Horizons (painters and ceramicists). Jackie's paintings are in collections in Canada, Australia, Ireland and the UK. She sells paintings privately and also through exhibitions and galleries.
Commissions are considered in pastel and oil.
sea platter meteor coral poplars magma pot
Roland has been exhibiting ceramics since 2003 after attending OCN evening courses at the City of Bath College. He has exhibited at the Edgar Modern, Ginger, Saddler Sreet and Toll House galleries in Bath, Bristol, Wells and Clevedon respectively as well as the Chippenham Festival, Hidden Horizons and Trinity shows in Bath.
Open Studios: September, round about Keynsham and surrounding villages . This is a new venture for 2007. Please refer to the roundaboutarttrail web site for details.
