Ashley Jackson (born 1940) is an English landscape watercolourist. Raised in

Barnsley Barnsley () is a market town in South Yorkshire, England. As the main settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley and the fourth largest settlement in South Yorkshire. In Barnsley, the population was 96,888 while the wider Borough has ...

, then in the

West Riding of Yorkshire The West Riding of Yorkshire is one of three historic subdivisions of Yorkshire, England. From 1889 to 1974 the administrative county County of York, West Riding (the area under the control of West Riding County Council), abbreviated County ...

, he opened his first gallery in 1963. He lives in the town of

Holmfirth Holmfirth is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, on the A635 and A6024 in the Holme Valley, at the confluence of the River Holme and Ribble, south of Huddersfield and west of Barnsley. It mostly consist ...

, near

Huddersfield Huddersfield is a market town in the Kirklees district in West Yorkshire, England. It is the administrative centre and largest settlement in the Kirklees district. The town is in the foothills of the Pennines. The River Holme's confluence into ...

, where his gallery is also located.

Career

Jackson's artworks have been exhibited internationally. Jackson was honoured when one of his original watercolours was presented to

Bill Clinton William Jefferson Clinton ( né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and agai ...

, an avid art collector. Jackson has been featured on television programmes, including a series about him that ran on

PBS The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcasting, public broadcaster and Non-commercial activity, non-commercial, Terrestrial television, free-to-air television network based in Arlington, Virginia. PBS is a publicly fu ...

from 1984 to 1988 entitled ''Ashley Jackson's World of Art''; a documentary on Jackson in 1981 entitled ''Once in a Lifetime - My Own Flesh and Blood''; and in 2000, a celebratory program entitled ''Some Days are Diamond'' in recognition of Jackson's sixtieth birthday and his contribution to the arts. Jackson also presented the

television Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertisin ...

show '' A Brush With Ashley'' for nine

series Series may refer to: People with the name * Caroline Series (born 1951), English mathematician, daughter of George Series * George Series (1920–1995), English physicist Arts, entertainment, and media Music * Series, the ordered sets used in ...

between 1990 - 2001. He also appeared in The Last of the Summer Wine episode "A Loxley Lozenge" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0839120/ Ashley Jackson is also involved with the annual Walker Morris' calendar competition, which rases funds for the Martin House Children's Hospice.

Honours

Jackson was honoured as a Yorkshire Icon, recognising him as a uniquely important and inspirational person to the people of Yorkshire. In addition, in 2009, Yorkshire Bank introduced a debit card decorated with an original painting by Jackson to commemorate their 150th anniversary. Jackson praised the card by stating, "Customers will genuinely have a piece of Yorkshire in their pocket – representing Yorkshire and art wherever they use the card, be it New York, London or Newcastle." To convey his love for Yorkshire, he further added, "The greatest thing about it is Yorkshire, the county of Yorkshire, has helped me to where I am today."

Books

Jackson has also published a number of books about his technique and style. * 2006, ''50 Golden Years'' – Dalesman * 2000, ''Ashley Jackson's Yorkshire Moors- A love Affair'' - Dalesman * 1994, ''Painting the British Isles -a watercolourists journey'' - Boxtree * 1993, ''A Brush With Ashley'' - Boxtree * 1992, 'Painting in the Open Air' - Harper Collins * 1981, ''My Brush With Fortune'' - Secker and Warburg * 1981, ''Ashley Jackson’s Worlds of Art'' - vol. 1,2 & 3 Alexander Art Corporation * 1981, ''An Artists Notebook''

References

http://www2.tate.org.uk/40artists40days http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/features/ashley_jackson_my_life_in_art_video_1_2581076

External links

*http://www.ashley-jackson.co.uk 1940 births Living people 20th-century English painters English male painters 21st-century English painters People from Barnsley 20th-century English male artists 21st-century English male artists {{England-painter-stub