A Portrait of Kurt Jackson

Film-maker Robin Kewell has known Kurt Jackson for many years following and filming his progressive success as an artist, Kurt is now regarded as one of Europe's top landscape artists, having been compared by some to Turner.

Kurt likes nothing better than pitting himself against the elements and whatever they choose to throw at him, and has walked, swam, canoed and climbed, worked on the surface and underground, on the sea and under it, in pursuit of his subject matter. Adventurous and unconventional, but not all that surprising when you learn of the nomadic existence he led for several years subsequent to graduating from Oxford University where he spent much of his time at the Ruskin College of Art when he should have been elsewhere studying for his degree in zoology.

As well as painting while going walkabout through Africa he also went to South America and it was there, when living with the Kamorokoto Indians, that he witnessed at first hand the destruction of the rain forest. This experience hardened his resolve to do something about environmental issues and later, when a practising painter, to look closely at the materials he was using.

A painter who uses both ends of his brush, who has been described as "one of the most interesting artists working from nature in Europe", his paintings go way beyond most in this genre, leaping over traditional boundaries to illuminate nature as he finds and sees it.

Film-maker Robin Kewell will be presenting the film night that shows Kurt’s versatility and also showing clips from his vaste archive of this prolific painter, with exclusive clips from a conversation with Tim Smit (Eden Project / Lost Gardens of Heligan) revealing what a ‘Foley’ artist is and telling some of the stories from behind the lens.

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