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HJ Jackson: Linotype
Green Pebble Autumn 2007 issue
H.J. Jackson,
Senior Fellow of the
Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers,
first cut lino as part of a school art
lesson, and in 1954 that little print of a
galleon in full sail helped him to obtain
a place at the Norwich Art School.
He presented this print at the interview
and the graphics tutor, Geoffrey Wales
(himself a wood engraver), honed in on
it, pronouncing, ‘You will do
linocutting as a craft.’
And so he did, and after finishing art
school, H.J (John) Jackson continued
to focus on linoprints, enjoying the
challenges involved in the process. The
defining moment, however, didn't come
until 1961 when he saw a reproduction
in Graphis Magazine of Edward
Bawden's Liverpool Street Station.
‘As I had spent the last few years drawing and creating prints of the
declining industry at Melton Constable Railway Station and the neighbouring
works, this really caught my imagination and confirmed my commitment to lino,’
he says.
He still has the magazine.....
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