Kurt Jackson: Oak (2024)

For renowned British contemporary artist Kurt Jackson, the oak embodies beautiful fragility as much as gnarled, immovable permanence.

Each tree has a fascinating individual identity whilst part of an immense interconnected woodland world. The oak is a reservoir of great biodiversity, the tree itself an enormous life support system. 

Jackson has spent a lifetime in studied observation to present the oak through his own techniques and gestures – relishing in the challenges of scale and form. 

Oaks, perhaps more than other trees, have great artistic appeal. 

His paintings capture what is essential in detail and leave other elements merely indicated - realism and impressionism in perfect balance. 

Having ‘tramped’ oak woods a lot, these paintings, more than photographs, at once take me back there. 

- Aljos Farjon – Botanist

• Softcover: 140 pages
• Over 100 colour and black and white illustrations
• Foreword by Aljos Farjon
• Prose and poetry by Kurt Jackson
• ISBN: 978-1-0686620-0-3
• 26.5 x 22.5cm
• Signed*