My work is concerned with observing the connections between the natural and the manmade in a landscape, inspired by my setting in the South Downs and adjacent coastland. I’m interested in the margins where rural and built-up areas meet, mapping the human traces we leave behind and in the poetry of the mundane.
My research begins with walking, spending time, noticing, collecting objects I find on the way. Although painting remains at the heart of what I do, I am in the process of disrupting my practice, to find new ways of seeing and working; I am currently interrogating the aerial view and perspective it affords as a way to question what I see and to reveal pattern otherwise hidden or overlooked.
‘Loopy Walk’ Video 4mins 39″
![Oil painting with blue line and black and yellow blocks](https://artandmediapostgraduateshow.brighton.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Jackie-Fretten-Lost-in-Surface-and-Perspectives-i-Oil-oil-bar-collage-on-canvas-panel-60-x-60cm-2020.jpeg)
![Oil painting of blue path and caravan](https://artandmediapostgraduateshow.brighton.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Jackie-Fretten-Lost-in-Surface-and-Perspectives-ii-Oil-oil-bar-oil-pastel-collage-graphite-on-sewn-canvas-and-ply-70-x-70cm-2020-.jpg)
![Oil Painting blue and brown patches](https://artandmediapostgraduateshow.brighton.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Jackie-Fretten-Over-Shingle-and-Magnox-2-Mono-Print-on-Fabriano-Unica-250g-35-x-35cm.jpeg)
![Oil Painting blue lines on tan background](https://artandmediapostgraduateshow.brighton.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Jackie-Fretten-Over-Shingle-and-Magnox-9-Mono-print-on-Fabrica-Unica-250g-35-x-35-cm-2019.jpeg)