The National Library of Wales Aberystwyth

Book description
In association with Swansea Print Workshop Colour & Nature: Swansea is a publication that documents a series of two-day workshops delivered by Elizabeth Jackson. Inspired by local field trips and the descriptive, sensory and material qualities of colour, SPW participants created the content for this limited edition bookwork published by Atelier Jackson Press.

For more information about the project see:
New Creative Dialogues project blog
Swansea Print workshop website

This project was supported by:

In March 2011 I met with Gill Saunders, Senior Curator (Prints) in the Word & Image Department at the V&A. I gifted a suite of prints to the collection: Colour Observation: Argentiere Glacier, March 2010

I also gifted two book works that were accepted into the V&A National Art Library:
Colour & Nature, Swansea, 2010
Colour of Summer [volume one]

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Victoria and Albert Museum Word and Image Department
Prints & Drawings Study Room is located on Level 4 of the Henry Cole Wing
Enquiry desk (Tues. – Fri. 10-17:00): +44(0)20 7942 2563

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V&A National Art Library
Link to NAL catalogue reference for Colour & Nature book
Link to NAL catalogue reference for The Colour of Summer [volume one], book

In December 2010 I delivered a number of works to The Colour Reference Library at the Royal College of Art.

Works the collection now holds:
Colour Observation: Argentiere Glacier, March 2010
Colour & Nature, Swansea, 2010
Colour of Summer [volume one]

The Colour Reference Library

The Colour Reference Library (CRL) at the Royal College of Art is one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of colour-related publications in the world. Containing well over a thousand books, together with pamphlets, swatches and journals, the library covers numerous aspects of the vast field of colour-based studies, encompassing art and science, theory and practice.

New Work 2010

Title: Colour Observation Argentière Glacier March 2010
Contents: 27 Glacial Blue prints / Observation Notes / black & white photograph
Size: 210mm x 297mm
Edition: 10

Description: A limited edition folio of Glacial Blue screenprints. Each print details a daily colour observation of the Argentière Glacier during a month long study.

Printmaking Today Autumn Issue 2010
Printmakers’ Diary (page 5)
Nancy Campbell hunts for prints in Arctic Greenland

“Since my exposure to ice in the Arctic I’ve been seeking out others’ responses to this shifting substance to help contextualize my own work. Elizabeth Jackson, the current artist-in-residence at Swansea Print Workshop, Wales, is working on a series of colour studies of ‘Glacial Blue’. These intricately layered screenprints continue Jackson’s impressive body of research on transient colours in nature and analysis of colour depth and mass. the artist’s Glacier Project which records daily observation of the Argentière Glacier in the French Alps, reveals the ‘poetry that science sometimes filters out in the pursuit of objective discourse’.”

Printmaking Today website

A selection of my books are represented at the London Art Book Fair 2010 by KALEID editions.

The London Art Book Fair
24-26 September 2010

Kaleid editions
Whitechapel Gallery

New Publication August 2010

Title: Colour & Nature Swansea
Publisher: Atelier Jackson Press
Size: 350mm x 250mm
Workshops: Swansea Print Workshop, UK, May – August 2010
Edition: 10 copies

Description: In association with Swansea Print Workshop Colour & Nature: Swansea is a publication that documents a series of two-day workshops delivered by Elizabeth Jackson. Inspired by local field trips and the descriptive, sensory and material qualities of colour, SPW participants created the content for this limited edition bookwork published by Atelier Jackson Press.

Colours featured in this volume:
Ghost Green, Grows Like Popcorn, Impossible Infinite Nothrything, Time Bleached, Beach Cone, Silver Slate Blue, Burnished Burgundy Bronze, Dusty Latte, Hazy Mauve, Lavender Grey Blue, Luminous Lipstick Pink, Shimmering Red Mandarin, Shot Mango, Sunlit Leaf Green, Warm Burgundy Glow

For full details of the project and workshops see www.newcreativedialogues.wordpress.com

I am printing a single sheet with the 15 unique colours participants have created during the Colour & Nature workshop series. The sheet will form a collective souvenir of the project.

Two-Day Workshops: Colour & Nature
Swansea Print Workshop, UK, June – August 2010

Workshop One / Field Trip: St James Gardens
Workshop Two / Field Trip: Swansea Beach
Workshop Three / Field Trip: Botanical Gardens, Singleton Park