Janet Haigh
Stephen Jacobson
JANET HAIGH | TEXTILE ARTIST
STEPHEN JACOBSON RWA | PAINTER
Tel. 07973 405591
Stephen Jacobson and Janet Haigh have lived and worked for more than 30 years in a house overlooking the Bristol Channel, situated where the Severn Estuary flows into a stretch of water referred to, on the old sea charts. as the Severn Sea. Their garden wall and the sea wall are one and the same.
Both Stephen and Janet continue to find inspiration in their home environment; Stephen describes the experience of moving here as:
"this semi rural coast has been a revelation, most notably the vastness of the skies. These have become a feature of my work and I have been incorporating them into my view of the world I am trying to represent."
Jacobson and Haigh met at Liverpool College of Art; thereafter Stephen continued to study painting at the Royal Academy Schools, whilst Janet worked as an illustrator and designer in the London fashion industry. Through sheer frustration at the creative confines of her working life, Janet began to hand stitch small-scale imaginary gardens. From these beginnings, both artists have continued to follow their individual creative paths, side by side.
Whilst each artist's work has taken a very different path, both have a key element in common - they take time; usually several months of meticulous painting or stitching. This shared painstaking approach results in an often slow and irregular output of finished work, making their participation in the ArtPort Festival this year even more of a delight. There will be an exhibition of their original work, as well as new fine art giclee prints for sale, an innovation in their output which has given both artists the opportunity to revisit and assess some of their favourite images and also inspire new ones.
Both Haigh and Jacobson have exhibited widely in galleries, exhibitions and museums world-wide, and their work features in many collections. Stephen Jacobson has recently exhibited work at the newly reopened Royal West of England Academy (RWA), of which he is an elected Academician and was Vice President from 2013-2019; and at Bath Society of Artist's 117th annual open.
Both Stephen and Janet continue to find inspiration in their home environment; Stephen describes the experience of moving here as:
"this semi rural coast has been a revelation, most notably the vastness of the skies. These have become a feature of my work and I have been incorporating them into my view of the world I am trying to represent."
Jacobson and Haigh met at Liverpool College of Art; thereafter Stephen continued to study painting at the Royal Academy Schools, whilst Janet worked as an illustrator and designer in the London fashion industry. Through sheer frustration at the creative confines of her working life, Janet began to hand stitch small-scale imaginary gardens. From these beginnings, both artists have continued to follow their individual creative paths, side by side.
Whilst each artist's work has taken a very different path, both have a key element in common - they take time; usually several months of meticulous painting or stitching. This shared painstaking approach results in an often slow and irregular output of finished work, making their participation in the ArtPort Festival this year even more of a delight. There will be an exhibition of their original work, as well as new fine art giclee prints for sale, an innovation in their output which has given both artists the opportunity to revisit and assess some of their favourite images and also inspire new ones.
Both Haigh and Jacobson have exhibited widely in galleries, exhibitions and museums world-wide, and their work features in many collections. Stephen Jacobson has recently exhibited work at the newly reopened Royal West of England Academy (RWA), of which he is an elected Academician and was Vice President from 2013-2019; and at Bath Society of Artist's 117th annual open.
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