in the yard
Adopting a representational approach in place of the artist’s more customary abstract style, in the yard depicts a single figure holding a drum, set against a dizzying array of shapes and marks that allude to the Island’s thick tropical foliage. Typical of Jackson’s work, the brushwork, composition and colours are intended to showcase the hand of the artist and to emphasise painterly impact and passing impressions in place of exact representation. Through this series of preparatory studies, the artist seeks to explore the atmosphere of the contemporary Caymanian moment, as well as the essence of the people and the things that inhabit it.
About the Artist
John Reno Jackson
b. 1995
John Reno Jackson is an emerging contemporary Caymanian painter. He attended foundation courses in painting and drawing at the London Art Academy in 2015. Since then, he has continued his painterly explorations through a series of abstract works made in Grand Cayman. Jackson has exhibited at Paulo – PADA Studios in Barreiro, Portugal, where he attended an artist’s residency in 2020, and at Artisan Space in London, UK. His work is in the permanent collection of NGCI, where it was featured in the exhibitions Island of Women: Life at Home During Our Maritime Years (2020), Reimagined Futures – 2nd Cayman Islands Biennial (2021) and The People’s Collection – A 25-Year Cultural Legacy (2022).
