About
The vital elements and tools of my work are sensitivity, sensuality, and openness to what is seen and experienced. I seek always to combine a natural sensual approach with the Stoic concept of flourishing through knowledge.
I choose simple elements, pencil, paper, wood, and paint, as these offer immediacy with a measure of stability, and a range of tones, colours and textures.
My influences and inspiration include:
the poetry of Walt Whitman’s “Body Electric”, transforming simple physicality into a vibrant expression of life;
David Bomberg’s “spirit in the mass”; and
Alfred K. Siewers’ idea of landscape as “the physical environment that mediates between the human mind and nature”
Perception, intelligence, and physicality integrated and expressed through an active engagement with the tangible world.
Jacqueline
Formal Arts Education
Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design
BTEC National Diploma Art and Design 1988 - 1990
Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Art and Technology
BA Hons Degree Fine Art Painting 1990 - 1993
Exhibitions
Royal Society of British Artists 2024
Royal Society of British Artists 2023
ING Discerning Eye competition 2021
ING Discerning Eye Competition 2020
The Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition 2020
The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition - 2018
The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition - 2016
Threadneedle Prize Exhibition - 2013
Threadneedle Prize Exhibition - 2012
New English Art Club - 2011
Lynn Painter Stainer Prize Exhibition - 2010
Lynn Painter Stainer Prize Exhibition - 2007
Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries London - 1997
Modern Artists Gallery, Whitchurch on Thames
Jelly Leg'd Chicken Gallery, Reading
Syreford Gallery, Cheltenham
Commissions
Cheltenham College
Abbey National Building Society
Private commissions
Sales
Exhibiting with Singulart https://www.singulart.com/en/artist/jacqueline-abel-549
