Jackie Russell is a contemporary painter and printmaker, her practice exploring atmosphere and memory through abstraction of lived experience. The oil paintings are built intuitively through layers of rich impasto and translucent glazes. The contrast between heavily worked and delicate surfaces and structure and spontaneity creates tension, depth and ambiguity where paint is both a means of describing a space and a subject in itself.

A painterly approach is applied to the printmaking process, sometimes incorporating the transfer of charcoal drawings to Gelli plates and manipulating printing ink with brushes, rags and fingers to create many layers of colour.
Hand printed and painted papers are used in the mixed media images.