Kurt Jackson Anna Livia: Painting the path of the Young Liffey

Kurt Jackson
Anna Livia: Painting the path of the Young Liffey
Recently, the following of a particular river landscape, for example in France or on the Penwith peninsular of Cornwall (where
Jackson lives), seems to have taken on a clear fascination for him, the way a river reveals and seems to express the character of the landscape
through which it runs. In the present case there is a particular emotional resonance to the tracing of the young Liffey as well, the journey he
made to the peat bogs of the Wicklow mountains in 2006, marking his first return in some 30 years to a landscape he had come to as a boy
of 16, hitchhiking from London and his first time away from home on his own.
Nicholas Usherwood, Editor of Galleries Magazine.
Young Liffey, she dances on the hillside. 2014.
Mixed media on canvas 122 x 122cm
Liffey Head, morning sunshine. 2006.
Mixed media on paper 57 x 60cm
Weak sun, horizontal rain, the Liffey in spate. 2014.
Mixed media on canvas 91.5 x 91.5cm
Morning sunlight, the infant Liffey,
the tweet of a pipit. 2006.
Mixed media on paper 57 x 61cm
Liffey Love. Below Ballynabrocky. 2006.
Acrylic on Guinness advert 17 x 34cm
In the middle of a young Liffey with a small
tortoiseshell butterfly in the sunshine. 2006.
Mixed media on paper 57 x 61cm
Anna Livia comes babbling and burbling up out. 2014.
Oil on canvas 91.5 x 91.5cm
Published in 2015 to accompany:
Kur t Jackson - Anna Livia: Painting the Path of the Young Liffey
16th April - 10th May 2015, Origin Galler y, Dublin, Ireland.
www.kur tjackson.com
Front cover image:
Wet and windy, horizontal rain, young Liffey. 2006.
Mixed media on paper. 62.5 x 57cm. (Detail)
Back cover image:
Rain and Scots pines, Wicklow mountains. 2006.
Indian ink on paper. 50.5 x 68.5cm.
Ar t Photography: Fynn Tucker & Simon Cook
Por trait Photography: Caroline Jackson
Catalogue Design: Fynn Tucker
Publication copyright © Kur t Jackson 2015
All images copyright © Kur t Jackson 2015
Text copyright © Nicholas Usherwood 2015
Liffey source. 2014.
Mixed media on canvas 122 x 122cm
Kippure, Cipiur. 2006.
Acrylic on board 24 x 23cm
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