Jacqui Dodds is continually drawn to rich layers of human history within the built environment, visiting towns and cities alongside more rural locations.
Using silkscreen, linocut and blind embossing Jacqui distils memories of places visited and objects within them. Colour plays a significant role, whether subtle or vibrant. Using a limited palette or leaving areas untouched, Jacqui explores space and mood within images. Surfaces of her screen prints show layers of solid and transparent elements.
In contrast, Jacqui’s intricately carved blind embossed prints are devoid of colour, whereby the paper plays a significant role, revealing form and texture through shadow and light.
Jacqui is an elected Associate Member of the RBSA (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), a member of the Printmakers Council London, Leicester Print Workshop and Wrexham Print Centre.
Her most recent DYCP Arts Council award led to Jacqui visiting new sites around the UK to create a set of new screen prints inspired by the places visited. Also to work and exhibit with new galleries in those locations.
Jacqui was one of four artists selected to collaborate with artwork at BPN Architects in Birmingham, she exhibited ‘Reveal, Conceal’, a collection of screen prints inspired by buildings and architecture around the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter.
Jacqui teaches a variety of print workshop techniques. She set up and taught a City & Guilds Printmaking course at Westhope College, Shropshire and teaches print in colleges, galleries, museums, heritage venues and to various groups.
