Maz Jackson

Using fifteenth century methods, Maz paints in tempera made up of ground mineral pigments mixed with egg yolk and distilled water. The tempera is laid down on gessoed oak panels between gilded shapes of gold leaf. Much time passes between each process. Many drawings of thoughts and ideas form stimuli for the paintings which can take two or three years to resolve.

Maz has said that her ideas ‘are sourced from anything that excites: people, love, communication, touch, tension, laughter, flight, landscape, the spaces between and things sacred. I have a deep interest in colour, line, mark-making and edge, which all come into play when working in paint, drawing and print. I wish my work to have a timeless quality which the on-looker can dip into and be instilled with ever-changing thoughts, questions and smiles.’

Maz Jackson has exhibited nationally and internationally for the past 25 years and has twice been selected to exhibit as the UK representative at the 2003 and 2005 Florence Biennale. Maz was the art adviser and practitioner for the BBC 1 programme ‘Rolf on Art: Botticelli’s Birth of Venus’, the largest painting Rolf Harris had attempted for the series.