I am now painting under the name Jacqueline Davis. In 2023 I lost my two lovely old horses and found myself with a lot more free time and so decided to concentrate on my developing painting. The change of name has allowed me to psychologically step away from the hobby-painter who lived in my head and to see myself as a "proper" artist! The WOS event in August 2023 was a fun and very successful experience for me and I have continued to work and progress from there.
I love the way watercolours and inks run, blend, separate to ”do their own thing”, but also how acrylics and oils can be built up in layers, scraped back, smoothed out or used to create texture. So my working style is rather haphazard to start with - I like to let the paint lead me to the next step.
A year ago I started on a series of small paintings where I concentrated on trying to convey a feeling of expansiveness, of being drawn into the unseen. This has developed into larger pictures where the intention is to leave out the detail in favour of the overall feeling of the moment. It involves a fair bit of sitting, and staring at – and then walking away from – the beginning stages; sometimes scraping off or removing almost entirely, and lots of tweaking and adjusting – as I said, haphazard but becoming more intuitive as I progress. Rather than painting a specific place, I study photographs of the views that have attracted and inspired me and then attempt to convey in paint the feelings of those moments; the expanse of sunny seas in the Mediterranean, the Caribbean or Indian Ocean or the rolling corn fields of the countryside in summer, blend together in my head.