One of the leading figurative painters of his generation Andrzej Jackowski’s exhibition includes over 80 works on paper spanning the last forty years, from 1963 – 2003. Most of his work is biographical in detail and is based on early childhood memories, recollections of a family history in Poland, and in some cases his deepest feelings and experiences.
Talking about his work Jackowski explains that it fluctuates "between a kind of vigilant dreaming and being wide awake. As a young painter, I drew for many years with my (untrained) left hand to break the spell of natural representation. It took me several years to find these powerful, insistent and significant images which derive from the cellars of the human memory and psyche, both my own and something more collective. These images are poetic metaphors for something real, intimate and mysterious in our lives".
Presented by the Centre for Contemporary Visual Arts in association with Purdy Hicks Gallery, London.
