Œuvres à l’Encre

2018

“Jack is a traveler who searches with all of his being and intuition to bring together a vocabulary that brings together the real with the spiritual. Gathering materials from specific sites, Jack explores social memories of place through intimate contact with the people who live there in the simplest way. His method, using ink he creates from the husk of butternuts and walnuts (he gathers the nut, separates the husks, grinds, boils and filters them) is a meditative, labor intensive process. Representation is not the goal. The painting is more than the subject. The ink, color and brushwork become the image, not the mountain or ocean or whatever he is painting. Poetry that is connected to the landscape and people.”

—Anick Valiquette


Œuvres à l’Encre installation view

Handmade walnut ink on paper
2018

From One Generation to Another

Handmade walnut ink on paper
2018


Sketchbooks installation view

Handmade walnut ink on paper
2018

Inner Landscape of Memphremagog Lake

Handmade walnut ink on paper
2018
Private collection


Liquid Memories of Cantons-de-l’est

Handmade walnut ink on paper

2018


Orford Rainwater Landscape

Handmade walnut ink on paper

2018


Daily Kanji

Handmade walnut ink on paper
2005

Sayat Nova Pondscape
(Dedicated to Yo Oya)

Handmade walnut ink on paper
2018
Private collection