Statement

Kate Jacob’s practice brings to surface places that lie in and between the concrete and the unknown, using mixed media of acrylics inks and pastel on canvas and paper. The work is luminous and ethereal, yet present and fixed. Punctuated marks, patterns and ideas repeat, jumping from page to page, canvas to canvas that speak of places vividly remembered set against fading, out of reach thoughts and memories.

She works from a studio on the edge of the city centre where the walls are used to capture thoughts, ideas and colours; scribbling phases, dabbing colour, testing out marks onto surrounding surfaces to make sense of and inform the process.

“I make paintings and drawings that are investigative, working with ideas we see as abstract but are as real as the physical world we live in.  In colour, mark, shape and gesture I find the fluidity and freedom to convey those spaces inside and outside us that we know, sense and feel. Trying to get to the bottom of something not always known; being fully aware and totally unsure.