Andrzej jackowski

Using powerful, insistent images from his past Jackowski explores ideas of human memory and psyche, both on a personal and more collective level.

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We lived with my half-brother who was a photographer - when I was fourteen my parents separated, about the same time I painted a self-portrait and made a decision to become a painter. His drawings and paintings now became imbued with some of the defining events of modern European history: the concentration camps; the war and its displacement of populations; the tragic fate of Eastern Europe.

Jackowski's world of wooden slats testifies to a collective experience of loss However personal or private Jackowski's impetus may have been in origin, he ended up, almost despite himself, creating a kind of contemporary "history painting" '. Timothy Hyman. Moving between observation and abstraction, he employs strong elements of colour and shape to build up compositions that highlight the scale of his environment.

The sheer cliff faces of the deep fjords, impenetrable but for a few solitary rays of sunlight merge with the darkening skies. The interplay between dark and light against such backdrops suggest a sense of both the ancient and the eternal. His interpretations of the Norwegian west coast nature may be seen as a renewal of the Norwegian landscape painting in the tradition of Johan Christian Claussen Dahl and Peder Balke.

Opdahl distills the mood of western coastal landscape of Norway, which is much like Washington State, but on steroids.