Portrait Artist Dee Jackson’s great love is Watercolour. “It is the fluidity and spontaneity that attracts. Watercolour lends itself to the softness and curves of the human form. It allows the artist great freedom. I like to capture spontaneous moments in someone’s life; whether joy or a time of reflection. Sometimes from photographs and sometimes from life sketches in my studio, I always hope to portray the character of the sitter.”
Although Sydney based, Dee has spent several years living in Southern Africa and New Zealand and loves to paint the diversity of humanity. Colour, shapes and shadows – these are what attract Dee to people’s faces
Dee Jackson is an exhibiting member of the Ku-Ring-Gai Art Society. Her work has been exhibited at Sydney’s Ku-Ring-Gai Art Centre and Adelaide’s Habitat Gallery.
Watercolour: Ku-Ring-Gai Art Centre, Sydney – studied with Watercolour Artists MADELEINE SZYMANSKI, ROB CANDY, MALCOLM CARVER and ANN MILCH
Drawing: Sturt Summer School, Mittagong – Large Scale Narratives: with Sculptor/Drawer DAVID HORTON
Sculpture: Adelaide, South Australia – studied with German born Sculptor THEA BLUHM
Oil Painting: Durban, South Africa at Watercolour Artist WENDY AMM’s Art Studio
Life Drawing: Auckland, New Zealand