H.J Jackson
I have been linocutting for over 70 years, having cut my first block in my last term at school. Arriving at Norwich Art School, the wood engraver Geoffrey Wales looked at that print and pronounced that I would study linocutting as a craft. With those few words, he mapped out my artistic life.
On leaving art school I had to devise a method of printing without the services of a press. Surprisingly, the answer came in the form of my tobacco tin. I found I could use the base of this as a burnishing tool – a method I still employ to this day.
I produced my first editioned print in 1958 inspired by the closure of my local M&GN railway. This work set the style of subject matter that I would later choose – the disappearing railway, old buildings about to make way for the developer, and what would become my main inspiration, the declining fishing industry.
I am a Senior Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and a member of the Society of Wood Engravers. The latest book of my work, HJ Jackson: Drawn to Print, was awarded the 2024 East Anglian Book Award prize for biography and memoir.
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