Vanessa Jackson RA (b.1953)

Vanessa Jackson RA (b.1953)

Limelight

Signed verso

Oil on canvas

25 x 31cm

Horatio's Garden will receive 100% of the hammer price on this lot.

Vanessa Jackson, on first reading, appears to take the most formal approach to painting, but her use of geometry and its three dimensional function deny the supposed flatness of modernist space. Jackson's work explores the contradiction of a fully realised space at once pertaining to logic and completeness and uncertainty and unease. The ornamental and optical play of colour acts to both confirm and confuse our sense of perception, constantly shifting between concrete presence and the ambiguity of space beyond our grasp. Jackson destabilises the very 'ground' we most desire, a sense of security and belonging.