Big Draw

coastlines are often the subject of jacqui s abstract landscapes where she focuses on the sensation of places remembered from her homeland, south africa. she has developed a metaphorical painterly language where the process of remembering is transferred. mixing opposites of oil and water creates surface tension with restless compositional movement suggesting that memory is unreliable and constantly changing. she immerses herself in this process finding an inner connection and often remembering a sense of smell which triggers a memory. her work explores the relationship in us between identity and territory and demonstrates that they are integral to what we are.more recently, british landscapes are filtering into her consciousness offering a new point of reference.