Exhibitions
Kurt Jackson (1961-)
Frenchman's Creek (Autumn/Winter 2019/20)

In this new body of work Kurt Jackson immerses himself – sometimes literally – in a tributary of the Helford River, an area of Atlantic temperate rainforests. A unique landscape of sessile oak woodlands meeting the tide that famously inspired Daphne du Maurier’s 1941 novel Frenchman’s Creek.

"This is a fragile place, a delicate and ancient piece of land and water – a beautiful place to linger, watch and witness; the slow tides and seasonal shifts in dress. The wet mud reflects the foliage or lack of it above, but below the fallen oak branches and trunks are always present – charcoal and umber strands snaking across my composition. All is worthy of capture and celebration on my boards and paper and canvas, on the page on my lap or back in the studio."
Jackson Foundation

2009-15
  • Drip, Drip, Drip (2009)
  • Helford hazel and oak (2010)
  • Frenchman’s oaks (2010)
  • The oaks have their feet in the water (2010)
  • Winter late afternoon, the creek’s wonky oaks (2010)
  • Serene across the creek (2010)
  • Snow. Silence, only the muttering of a blackbird. Frenchmans Creek (2013)
  • Cornish rainforest. Frenchman’s Creek Cottage - the palm (2014)
  • Robin ticking, damp evening (2014)
  • Frenchman’s Creek cottage (2014)
  • December low water and stillness (2014)
  • Twilight, owl call (2014)
  • The tidal limit, Frenchman’s Creek stream (2014)
  • Frenchman’s Creek wind in the treetops, ebbing tide, weak sunlight (2014)
  • High tide, green waters (2014)
  • Egrets, mud and oaks (2015)
  • A wader’s fluting call echoes up and down Frenchman’s Creek (2015)
    • 2017
  • Big fish jump (2017)
  • Jays arguing in the oaks above the creek (2017)
  • Sunlight and showers, mercury and silver (2017)
  • Frenchman’s wreck (2017)
  • The oaks have their fingertips and toes in the water, Helford oaks (2017)
  • Helford low water (2017)
  • The buzzard’s mew echoes up the creek (2017)
  • Helford evening (2017)
  • Owls calling across the creek (2017)
  • The owls wake up and hoot, the egrets go off to roost (2017)
  • Tide slowly inches its way up the creek, a boat appears (2017)
  • Autumn oaks and the Iron Duke wreck (2017)
  • Low water, curlew wail (2017)
  • Sundowner (2017)
  • Up a creek (2017)
  • Morning into Frenchman's Creek (2017)
  • Low water, mouth of the creek (2017)
  • Night falls in the Helford (2017)
  • Tide on the turn (2017)
    • 2018-19
  • Stink of a fox, stink of wild garlic (2018)
  • Screech of a Jay, late afternoon, winter across the creek (2018)
  • On the mud (2018)
  • Green walls (2018)
  • Weak winter sunlight (2018)
  • Low sun, low water, Frenchman’s (2018)
  • Sunset gig rowing up the Helford (2018)
  • Misty Helford morning (2018)
  • Mouth of the Helford (2018)
  • Above the creek with the longtailed tits (2018)
  • Two kingfishers fly pass me, hornets buzz by, eels at my feet (2018)
  • Boaty, sunny Helford River (2018)
  • High tide and the oaks have their toes and fingertips in the water (2018)
  • Midday, Spring low water (2018)
  • Mr and Mrs Swan and their four cygnets pass (2018)
  • Stream to the creek (2018)
  • Between the twitter of the robin and the burble of the stream (2018)
  • High water between the oaks (2018)
  • Frenchman's buzzard (2018)
  • Evening, whimbrel calling (2018)
  • Oaken mud (2018)
  • Low water, bird twitter (2018)
  • Lazy oaken waters (2019)