Herb Jackson: Firestorm in the Teahouse

Although his roots are in abstract expressionism, one sees immediately the artist is not an action painter but rather one who paints intuitively. Jackson states that his studio practice involves decisions that are non verbal and made in an emotional response to the emerging painting. He can work... Read more

Although his roots are in abstract expressionism, one sees immediately the artist is not an action painter but rather one who paints intuitively. Jackson states that his studio practice involves decisions that are non verbal and made in an emotional response to the emerging painting. He can work for several hours in an intuitive state, without a verbal thought, conferring a meditative nature to the completed work. Yet Jackson’s works engage and excite; there is a dynamic force to his compositions and a haunting musicality to his themes that rewards repeated viewings and is not static.