Jacqui Bassett
Jacqui Bassett is an oil and cold wax painter based in the English Lake District. At its core, her work explores the emotionality of the land, seas and skies of our British Isles.
Jacqui paints intuitively, guided far more by how a landscape is experienced than by what she physically sees before her. Back in her studio she allows the painting to find its own way out, working with it to search out the opportunities it gives whilst breathing back into it the experience of being out in the landscape.
For Jacqui, to paint is to attempt to illustrate the powerful and complex relationship we have to our wilds.
About oil & cold wax medium: Cold Wax Medium is a buttery paste made from beeswax, alkyd resin and odourless mineral spirits. When added to oil paint, it gives the paint more body, it speeds up the drying time and it provides a lovely velvety matt finish to the painting. Working with this medium is a subtle process of both adding and removing multiple paint layers to reveal the hidden colours and texture beneath.
Jacqui Bassett is an oil and cold wax painter based in the English Lake District. At its core, her work explores the emotionality of the land, seas and skies of our British Isles.
Jacqui paints intuitively, guided far more by how a landscape is experienced than by what she physically sees before her. Back in her studio she allows the painting to find its own way out, working with it to search out the opportunities it gives whilst breathing back into it the experience of being out in the landscape.
For Jacqui, to paint is to attempt to illustrate the powerful and complex relationship we have to our wilds.
About oil & cold wax medium: Cold Wax Medium is a buttery paste made from beeswax, alkyd resin and odourless mineral spirits. When added to oil paint, it gives the paint more body, it speeds up the drying time and it provides a lovely velvety matt finish to the painting. Working with this medium is a subtle process of both adding and removing multiple paint layers to reveal the hidden colours and texture beneath.
