Jacqueline Wearing: Artworks

About the Book

This comprehensive collection of works celebrates Jacqueline Wearing’s career from the 1960s until present, charting a fascinating and markedly individual exploration of diverse medium, technique and subject. Working varyingly with oil, watercolour, pastel, photography and assemblage, it is clear that Wearing relishes an element of discovery as she creates: she experiments freely with form in the Taking Shape series; delights in colour as the light bursts through her highly atmospheric Sunrise series; and employs a richly free handling to reveal an enigmatic presence within her stunning Un-named in oil. Although undoubtedly a student of the Modern, Wearing is also deeply inspired by the Romantic works of J M W Turner. This is traceable through the ephemeral atmosphere the artist captures within her enveloping landscapes, as well as in her love of natural form. This newly published anthology features 63 sumptuous illustrations of Wearing’s work. The catalogue is chronologically arranged, charting the work’s evolution over a 50-year period and enabling us to join the artist upon her remarkable journey of discovery.

About the Author

Jacqueline Wearing is a painter, photographer and poet from Littlehampton, West Sussex. Born in 1935, Jacqueline attended Chichester High School for Girls and Portsmouth College. Jacqueline has always painted and likes to experiment with different media, although oil painting is her favourite. Her work is an act of discovery and rarely pre-planned. The illustrations contained within this anthology chart Jacqueline's work over a 50-year period from the early 1960s until present day.