Bill Jacklin

An Englishman in New York, Bill Jacklin was born in Hampstead, London in 1943 but settled in New York in 1985. At the age of ten he was given his first painting set and as a result spent entire days observing and painting on Hampstead Heath. Direct observation is still essential to Jacklin's method and he spends hours standing and sketching in places like Coney Island and Central Park in New York. Jacklin's paintings show the influence of Hopper and Seurat with their dappled, refracted light, carrying with them the sense that the viewers are outsiders catching a glimpse of a moment in life. Jacklin has found his artistic home in Manhattan where his need to capture movement and light is fulfilled by the busy traffic and the swarming crowds at work and play.

Bill Jacklin Images:
St. Francis and the Birds, Coney Island
The Promenade, Fifth Avenue 1986