
Website: www.idrisjackson.co.uk
Most of my work represnts my experience of places, urban and rural. I draw and take photographs and the search for ways in which to translate these into 'finished' paintings or prints is my main preoccupation.
Over the years I have developed an increasing interest in the processes and marks of making pictures, and the work becomes correspondingly abstracted, or occasionally, abstract.
Initially trained as a graphic designer at Hornsey College of Art and the Royal College of Art, I worked through the '70s and '80s as an editorial designer and illustrator.
I also worked as a lecturer in various art schools and polyechnics, becoming a full-time academic in the 1980s, until I retired in 2010. I have continued to draw throughout my career and took up painting around 2000. I re-discovered printmaking. I now have a press in my studio in London.
I have exhibited several times at the Royal Academy, The Mall Galleries and Bankside Gallery.