'The Silver Road'

  …. we reached the limestone track in the gathering dusk and the horses stepped nervously across the alien structure to the more familiar black peat beyond, and home. I looked back and the landscape seemed like a huge, benign, sleeping animal, with the silver road stretched across like an ineffectual fetter.....

 

Susan Jacks

"My work is about a collection of impressions, the ride, the weather, the ancient stone walls, the rivers and tracks. In an holistic way I'm trying to layer all this into a painting plus the way I feel about the history of it's forming"

Jack’s work is clearly intensified by her life 300 metres up on Bodmin Moor. Her quiet restricted pallet and occasional lush use of impasto make these land/seascapes a shadowy world, both remote and unfathomable. In these landscapes/the artist strives for an equivalent rather than a direct representation. "I prefer to work from memory. It is a powerful source of internal responses. Instead I have to rely on a feel of the space." The lyrical movements are quiet, restricted pallet create an ambiguous sense of space, sometimes reminiscent of Chinese landscape painting.