Welcome to Jacqueline Hammond's Gallery
This exciting gallery hosts a selection of sub-galleries of paintings created over the last five years by the artist Jacqueline Hammond.
As well as paintings Jacqueline also creates bespoke 1970's style lampshades known as Smarty Lamps. Available from www.smartylamps.co.uk
.Please re-visit the site regularly as new work will be added as it's created.
ARTICLE FOR ARTY MAGAZINE:
"I was sitting on a deckchair sketching people on the beach one day when I decided this was the life for me. I grew up in Devon and so when I moved to Brighton over three years ago I was very glad to be near the sea again. At first I was obsessed by the sunsets and the infinite challenge of capturing the sea in paint but the great thing about a beach is that people stay still long enough for you to draw them!
It was the feedback and positive response to my work when I was a finalist in the Seeking Picasso competition that inspired me to take my work more seriously and commercially. It was a good introduction to some of Brighton’s art world.
I tend to focus on the people and activity on the beach. Although hectic in the height of summer I love the melting pot of people. I have fun caricaturing people in my ‘Pebble Heads’ series. The sea and beach is traditionally painted in landscape, but in my ‘Life’s a beach’ series I paint the shoreline in portrait as if from a bird’s eye point of view, sweeping up the shoreline capturing the crowds and social groupings of people to miniature proportions the further away. Some say this is an unusual view but with the height of Marine Parade and the pier I feel you are often looking down on the people on the beach.
I have also tried to make a virtue out of the craze of ‘tomb stoning’. The Groyne Series came about from observing the shapes of kids playing and jumping into the sea from the sea groynes. Painted in silhouette with glimmering highlights, these paintings seems to evoke memories of the height of summer for many people and could be anywhere in the world.
I guess because I live at the Marina end I always tend to look that way from the pier and I love the light at sunset on the buildings in Kemptown. We are saturated with images of the burnt out West pier, no one ever paints the marina! Well it’s in a lot of my paintings and I’ve made it blend in fine. I was so excited one day when the low tide revealed sand, it was an incredible sunset and the starlings were doing their dance in the sky above. This inspired a series of paintings that capture this end of the beach with a wonderful sense of light and space.
Ever since I was young I’ve loved those streets where you look down the road and there’s the sea at the bottom with the horizon line halfway up the buildings. I had been planning to do some pictures of this and Eaton Place best fitted the bill with the shelter at the bottom of the road. Therefore I was delighted to show my work in Eaton Place this year for Open Houses and had great success with that piece. This has lead me to start on Brighton and Hove’s architecture and perhaps spend less time on the beach….(when summer ends!)
Paintings and prints of Jacqueline’s work are available at www.jacqueline-hammond.com "
As well as paintings Jacqueline also creates bespoke 1970's style lampshades known as Smarty Lamps. Available from www.smartylamps.co.uk
.Please re-visit the site regularly as new work will be added as it's created.
ARTICLE FOR ARTY MAGAZINE:
"I was sitting on a deckchair sketching people on the beach one day when I decided this was the life for me. I grew up in Devon and so when I moved to Brighton over three years ago I was very glad to be near the sea again. At first I was obsessed by the sunsets and the infinite challenge of capturing the sea in paint but the great thing about a beach is that people stay still long enough for you to draw them!
It was the feedback and positive response to my work when I was a finalist in the Seeking Picasso competition that inspired me to take my work more seriously and commercially. It was a good introduction to some of Brighton’s art world.
I tend to focus on the people and activity on the beach. Although hectic in the height of summer I love the melting pot of people. I have fun caricaturing people in my ‘Pebble Heads’ series. The sea and beach is traditionally painted in landscape, but in my ‘Life’s a beach’ series I paint the shoreline in portrait as if from a bird’s eye point of view, sweeping up the shoreline capturing the crowds and social groupings of people to miniature proportions the further away. Some say this is an unusual view but with the height of Marine Parade and the pier I feel you are often looking down on the people on the beach.
I have also tried to make a virtue out of the craze of ‘tomb stoning’. The Groyne Series came about from observing the shapes of kids playing and jumping into the sea from the sea groynes. Painted in silhouette with glimmering highlights, these paintings seems to evoke memories of the height of summer for many people and could be anywhere in the world.
I guess because I live at the Marina end I always tend to look that way from the pier and I love the light at sunset on the buildings in Kemptown. We are saturated with images of the burnt out West pier, no one ever paints the marina! Well it’s in a lot of my paintings and I’ve made it blend in fine. I was so excited one day when the low tide revealed sand, it was an incredible sunset and the starlings were doing their dance in the sky above. This inspired a series of paintings that capture this end of the beach with a wonderful sense of light and space.
Ever since I was young I’ve loved those streets where you look down the road and there’s the sea at the bottom with the horizon line halfway up the buildings. I had been planning to do some pictures of this and Eaton Place best fitted the bill with the shelter at the bottom of the road. Therefore I was delighted to show my work in Eaton Place this year for Open Houses and had great success with that piece. This has lead me to start on Brighton and Hove’s architecture and perhaps spend less time on the beach….(when summer ends!)
Paintings and prints of Jacqueline’s work are available at www.jacqueline-hammond.com "
