Carl Jacobs

Carl Jacobs was born in Manchester in 1947. He paints subjects from photographs taken, and sketches made, whilst on holiday abroad and in Cornwall. Together with his wife, Marion, he loves to walk the coastal paths collecting material and ideas for paintings. These will be completed in his studio, in Lancashire.

He selects a number of photographs which he feels will translate well compositionally into a painting. Then -- preferring not to paint an exact copy but to include his own imagination and ideas -- he creates an abstraction. His preferred media is acrylics because of their flexibility and quick drying properties. These suit his method of working on canvas or board. Occasionally he uses oil paints because of their excellent blending quality.

Jacobs experiments in th paint, deftly building multi-layers, using brush and pallet knife, developing texture, tonal values, lines and shapes, often with squares dominant. Gradually the image is built up until he feels the essence and mood of the scene is right. The result is a visually interesting, 'fragmented' harbour scape, presented unglazed.

Jacobs had a background in advertising and graphics, preparing design layouts, ideas and finished artwork, on a variety of subjects, for various studios and agencies. Later he started and ran his own successful design studio and advertising service. Now a professional artist, Jacobs gives well received demonstrations and talks about his preferred method of working to art groups.

He has been an active member of Bury Art Society for eight years and is now Programme Secretary. Over the past four years he has successfully exhibited at Bury Art Gallery, receiving several highly commended awards by the Judges and in 2005, 2006 and 2007 winning the People's Prize. Also in 2005 he won an Internet Art Competition and that September he donated a painting, which was sold at auction, at North Manchester Hospital, to raise funds for a local Leukaemia Research charity.

Selected Exhibitions: : Bury Metropolitan Rework Exhibition. Whittakers Gallery, Rawtenstall Last Drop Inn, Bolton Worsley Festival Blythe Gallery Coach House, Litleborough Visitor Centre, Hollingworth Lake

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