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HJ Jackson :: Contact Info :: Artist Statement :: Previous Exhibitions
Artist Statement My first 'picture' print was produced in 1958, whilst awaiting final examination results. This was of Melton Constable Railway Station. It set the style of subject matter I was to concentrate on - the disappearing railway, old houses and streets about to make way for the developer; and what was to become my main inspiration, the declining fishing industry. On leaving Art School, I lost the use of the print-room press, but after experimenting, I finally settled on a 'tobacco tin' as the ideal burnishing tool - I still use this method some fifty years later. After working for over 30 years in Marketing and Publicity, I was able to pursue printmaking 'full time' in 1995. I am a Senior Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, exhibiting with the society since 1961. I am also a member of the Society of Wood Engravers and an exhibiter since 1967.
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In 2008 I celebrate 55 years of printmaking. In 1953, during my last months at school I cut my first piece of lino, and produced a small single colour print. This was instrumental in helping me to obtain a place at the Norwich School of Art. It was also directly responsible for me pursuing linocutting as a craft.