Jackie Berridge, Nottingham, Artist, Designer, Illustrator

Installing a large drawing in the Conningsby Gallery Window, 2007

Grace

An exhibition of large sequential drawings

1 March - 4th April

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Frances Bardsley
Visual Arts Centre

Introduction

Since graduating from Nottingham Trent University in 1995 with a First Class Honours degree, Jackie
has exhibited locally and nationally - in both group and solo exhibitions. Her abstract paintings inspired by the human anatomy have reached a wide audience. 'Extracting Anatomy' was shown at the Yard Gallery, Wollaton Hall, Nottingham in 2002 attracting 11,000 visitors. That year was crowned with two other solo shows at the Derby Museum & Art Gallery and the Royal College of Pathologists, London.

Childrens Book Illustration

Jackie's career took a new direction when she studied Children's Book Illiustration at Cambridge. How does an artist move from large abstract paintings to children's book illustration? Well - it was largely due to a change in circumstances and a desire for a new challenge.
Jackie had spent a year in France setting up and delivering painting holidays in the Dordogne. She returned to the UK in 2004 to Chelmsford, Essex where there were no studios to continue her work as an abstract painter. She therefore enrolled on a Children's Book Illustration MA, partly because she had always been interested in children's books but also to develop her creativity on a small scale.
Sketch Books
Her sketch-books had always been a catylist for ideas and images in her fine art, but Jackie also recognised these could be developed more figuratively in picture books. Elements of her work as a painter have trickled through to her illustrations: her new work is a fusion of abstract and figurative. She is making large-scale sequential drawings and a book based on the story of Grace. These different formats recreate the same story - contrasting the physicallity of large drawings with the initmacy of a book.

Harrington Mill Studios

As well as making art Jackie is in the process of setting up 18 new artists' workspaces in Long Eaton, Nottingham on the first floor of a victorian lace factory. For further details visit www.harringtonmillstudios.co.uk

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