HJ Jackson

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Artist Statement

In 2008 I celebrated 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.

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.

Previous Exhibitions

• Bircham Contemporary Arts, Holt, Norfolk
• Crome Gallery and Frame Shop, Norwich
• Stockers Gallery, Wells-next-the-sea, Norfolk
• R.E. Annual Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
• Norfolk Open Studios, Briston, Norfolk
• Society of Wood Engravers Touring Exhibitions
• Grapevine Gallery, Norwich
  
• Demonstrator at Art in Action 2006-2007, Waterperry, Oxfordshire