Jackie Adshead - Where my life and art are intertwined

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Well, its been almost a fortnight now and the internet is still not working but at least steps have been taken to change internet providers, since the last lot seem incapable and unwilling to rectify the adjustments needed to give me a working phone line. And hopefully, now, I can get back into the virtual world of my new website and my life through the internet.

So I’ve put all my blog entries of the last two weeks on in one go, with the kind co-operation of my mate, who wishes to remain anonymous, who has let me sit on his computer all morning, supplying me with a barrage of AC/DC, endless cups of hot sweet tea, chit-chat and laffs, and most important of all – an internet connection!

So, does this mean I can finally launch my new website after an annoying and fruitless wait of a fortnight? I sincerly hope so!!!

I've been an artist all of my life, and my paintings now hang on walls in Europe, USA and Canada. I'm working on getting them on the other continents! My wide range of artwork has been exhibited nearer to home in the East Midlands, with the Guild of Erotic Artists at Beaumont Hall Studios in Hertfordshire, and at "Erotica", Olympia, London. I have also been featured alongside my work in the Guild of Erotic Artists book (volume 2). I love to create dramatic interest in my pictures, whether it’s to paint an unusual landscape, or just to utilise dramatic lighting in my figure drawings or strong colour in my animal portraits. Delighting in the spontaneous tendencies of watercolour adds an interesting and distinctive look to my paintings, some of which are purposefully ambiguous, enabling the viewer to use their own interpretation of my artwork. I also love to hide images, and humour within my paintings, whether it’s a secret message, or an erotic couple hidden within a landscape, or even an erotic landscape where the couple are camouflaged as the features of the land itself. I am equally happy painting in oils, acrylics or watercolours and love to draw with pencil or ink. I have also developed the very effective method of drawing using white pencil on black card which creates dramatic pictures by just picking out where the light catches the body and leaving the rest of the image to the imagination, in darkness. I can also utilise many different styles, whether it is realistic, abstract, surrealistic, erotic, fantasy or camouflage art where something is hidden within the painting. I'm just passionate about my art, whatever I paint! But, it doesn't matter how many landscapes or pet portraits I paint, its always the erotic stuff that people are interested in! I started blogging to share some of the strange conversations I have with the people I meet. But its evolved into far more than that now.