ROBERT JACKS

March 5th - March 23rd

UNDERWATER GARDEN

THINKING OF MIRO'

"The two great attributes of Robert Jacks' art are his brilliant sense of colour and innate feeling for form. This has been apparent from his earliest exhibitions and continued through his various series of paintings up to the present. To this must be added a masterly onventiveness, which does not seek so much to break new grounds, as to rediscover himself in his own art. (...)

About two years ago Jacks visited Port Douglas... Here, looking into the clear waters, he was fascinated by all the activity of his marine underworld, by its unusual shapes and their brilliant colours. Memories were revived, resulting in this new series of paintings; a kind of homage to Miro' and a restatement of his own interests in organic shapes contrasted with the geometric..."

David Thomas - from Robert Jacks' catalogue: Underwater Garden, 2003