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Kurt Jackson: Sea Flower
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As one of the UK’s most respected living landscape painters, Kurt Jackson has spent a lifetime capturing the thresholds between land and sea, sea and sky.
This project pulls the focus farther toward the viewer, to a point often overlooked, where life thrives this side of the precipice.
Coastal strips of land have largely escaped the ravages of modern agriculture; they are marginal, precarious and often a rocky or sandy habitat, generally ignored or only used for rough grazing. Some has suffered urbanisation, been built upon, the blight of sea-facing homes on some stretches on the more sheltered coasts. But largely much of the coast has survived as botanically rich and beautiful, where a diverse range of species can cling on. Some of our rarest or least widespread species are found on our cliffs, coastal valley sides, salt marshes and dunescapes.
“I am standing at my easel on the clifftop. At my feet are a few pale primroses, out in front is the sea, the Atlantic in all its continuously shifting, churning and foaming glory. The primroses are small and still, tucked down out of the coastal breezes but turned towards the weak winter sunlight. And that is what I am painting, that contrast; size and scale; the flowers and the ocean, the powerless and the forceful. The tiny and (maybe insignificant) plants alongside the immense and powerful sea.” – Kurt Jackson
Kurt Jackson’s Seaflower runs alongside the Foundation’s other exhibition Nature Recovery in Cornwall, a photo exhibition looking at the National Trust’s nature conservation and restoration projects in Cornwall.
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Art, Workshops
Wed 16th Apr, 2025
Morrab Library, Penzance
£10 — £10
Art, Community, Cornish & Heritage, Family, Workshops
Tue 8th Apr, 2025 — Wed 16th Apr, 2025
St Ives Community Orchard, St Ives
£0 — £10
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Art, Outdoor
Mon 14th Apr, 2025 — Thu 17th Apr, 2025
Newlyn School of Art, Penzance
£595 — £595
Art, Community, Cornish & Heritage, Family, Workshops
Thu 10th Apr, 2025 — Thu 17th Apr, 2025
Leach Pottery, St Ives
£0 — £8
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Art, Family, Workshops
Sat 19th Apr, 2025
Jackson Foundation, Tin Coast
£0 — £0
Art, Family, Workshops
Sat 24th May, 2025
Jackson Foundation, Tin Coast
£0 — £0
Art
Sat 22nd Mar, 2025 — Sat 9th Aug, 2025
Jackson Foundation, Tin Coast
£0 — £0
