Jackie Fretten
My work is concerned with observing the connections between the natural and the manmade in a landscape, inspired by my setting in the South Downs and adjacent coastland. I’m interested in the margins where rural and built-up areas meet, mapping the human traces we leave behind and in the poetry of the mundane.
My practice begins with a journey, spending time and noticing how a location feels, recording the season, collecting objects I find on the way. Reflections along with photographs become the foundation for my sketch books and resource for enquiry.
I’m a painter and use paint to interpret what I see; I work in oil on board and enjoy the materiality that paint offers, layering and scraping back to reveal texture, line and form. I’m interested in playing with the surface that oil paint provides and choose to mix my own colour drawn from my surroundings.
However I am in the process of disrupting my practice, to find new ways of seeing and working. I intend to use Google maps and the perspective if affords in terms of topography, as a way of challenging how to interpret what I see, to reveal pattern otherwise hidden and to add an extra layer to my research.
I aim to challenge my figurative painting style by using the process of mono printing and its inherent element of chance to inform and direct my work - searching for the essence of a place without describing it exactly.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jackiefretten/
website: www.jackiefretten.co.uk
email: [email protected]
My work is concerned with observing the connections between the natural and the manmade in a landscape, inspired by my setting in the South Downs and adjacent coastland. I’m interested in the margins where rural and built-up areas meet, mapping the human traces we leave behind and in the poetry of the mundane.
My practice begins with a journey, spending time and noticing how a location feels, recording the season, collecting objects I find on the way. Reflections along with photographs become the foundation for my sketch books and resource for enquiry.
I’m a painter and use paint to interpret what I see; I work in oil on board and enjoy the materiality that paint offers, layering and scraping back to reveal texture, line and form. I’m interested in playing with the surface that oil paint provides and choose to mix my own colour drawn from my surroundings.
However I am in the process of disrupting my practice, to find new ways of seeing and working. I intend to use Google maps and the perspective if affords in terms of topography, as a way of challenging how to interpret what I see, to reveal pattern otherwise hidden and to add an extra layer to my research.
I aim to challenge my figurative painting style by using the process of mono printing and its inherent element of chance to inform and direct my work - searching for the essence of a place without describing it exactly.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jackiefretten/
website: www.jackiefretten.co.uk
email: [email protected]