Happy Days
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Research by Marjorie Gregson and Patricia James
Painting description by Jean Holland |
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Artist Jacqueline Kay Hilton Artist dates 1941- Medium oil on board Size 12 x 15 in Date painted Donor Anne Chisholm in memory of her mother, Margaret Welford Date donated 8 January 2010 |
ARTIST
Jacqueline Kay was born in 1941 and was interested in painting and the Arts in general from an early age. Her father painted and took her
to exhibitions in Manchester where she grew up. She attended The High School of Art, Manchester and trained as a teacher at Bretton Hall College near Wakefield, West Yorkshire. On qualifying she spent twenty years teaching art to A- level in a secondary school.
Due to family commitments there were many years when she didn’t paint but she renewed her interest after moving to the Fylde on her retirement Her greatest love is landscape painting but she has painted still life and cityscapes.
She became a member of the Lytham St Annes Art Society, later becoming a Leader of the Oil Painting Group, and was invited to give an appraisal of members’ work on 13 April 2012. Jacqueline has also exhibited her work at the Lytham Heritage Centre. Working in both oil and pastel she has recently started to paint in acrylics, which she finds more challenging. Now she is branching out into more contemporary or semi-abstract, which she feels is more sympathetic to that medium.
Jacqueline has a little studio in her garden where she paints whenever she can.
THE PAINTING
This painting by Jacqueline Kay Hilton is very easy on the eye, making no demands on the viewer.
The painterly style of the brushwork, reminiscent of the Impressionists, appears to be lazy and restful. The eye is carried from the woman packing her bag, with the little boy in the shallow plane of the picture around the sweep of the paddling pool, to the deeper plane of the buildings in the background.
The horizontal lines of the roofs of these buildings, as well as the solid line of the base of the bandstand roof, lends a feeling of stability and calm to the scene, enhanced by the lack of activity of the relaxing figures, standing or sitting, some with their feet in the water.
The painter has used a palette of pale blues in the sky, the bandstand and the water. This is lit up, not only by the bright reds of the woman’s garment in the foreground, the railings on the bandstand and the roofs of the building, but also by the sunny yellows of the little boy’s shirt and the roof of the bandstand.
The tonality in the background bushes and the pronounced shadows of the woman and little boy in the foreground bring more sunshine into the picture.
The white of the light fluffy clouds in the large expanse of sky, reflected in the water, add a light, airy feel to the picture of what looks like a truly ‘Happy Day’.
On 8 January 2010 I had the pleasure of presenting the picture, Happy Days by Jacqueline Kay-Hilton, to the Mayor, Cllr Paul Rigby, who accepted it on behalf of the Lytham St Annes Art Collection. I gave it in memory of my mother, Margaret Welford, who was a member of the Lytham St Annes Art Society and who had bought the picture at one of the Society’s exhibitions. Margaret died in October 2007 after an interesting and artistically prolific life.
Ann Chisholm
25 January 2010
Jacqueline Kay was born in 1941 and was interested in painting and the Arts in general from an early age. Her father painted and took her
to exhibitions in Manchester where she grew up. She attended The High School of Art, Manchester and trained as a teacher at Bretton Hall College near Wakefield, West Yorkshire. On qualifying she spent twenty years teaching art to A- level in a secondary school.
Due to family commitments there were many years when she didn’t paint but she renewed her interest after moving to the Fylde on her retirement Her greatest love is landscape painting but she has painted still life and cityscapes.
She became a member of the Lytham St Annes Art Society, later becoming a Leader of the Oil Painting Group, and was invited to give an appraisal of members’ work on 13 April 2012. Jacqueline has also exhibited her work at the Lytham Heritage Centre. Working in both oil and pastel she has recently started to paint in acrylics, which she finds more challenging. Now she is branching out into more contemporary or semi-abstract, which she feels is more sympathetic to that medium.
Jacqueline has a little studio in her garden where she paints whenever she can.
THE PAINTING
This painting by Jacqueline Kay Hilton is very easy on the eye, making no demands on the viewer.
The painterly style of the brushwork, reminiscent of the Impressionists, appears to be lazy and restful. The eye is carried from the woman packing her bag, with the little boy in the shallow plane of the picture around the sweep of the paddling pool, to the deeper plane of the buildings in the background.
The horizontal lines of the roofs of these buildings, as well as the solid line of the base of the bandstand roof, lends a feeling of stability and calm to the scene, enhanced by the lack of activity of the relaxing figures, standing or sitting, some with their feet in the water.
The painter has used a palette of pale blues in the sky, the bandstand and the water. This is lit up, not only by the bright reds of the woman’s garment in the foreground, the railings on the bandstand and the roofs of the building, but also by the sunny yellows of the little boy’s shirt and the roof of the bandstand.
The tonality in the background bushes and the pronounced shadows of the woman and little boy in the foreground bring more sunshine into the picture.
The white of the light fluffy clouds in the large expanse of sky, reflected in the water, add a light, airy feel to the picture of what looks like a truly ‘Happy Day’.
On 8 January 2010 I had the pleasure of presenting the picture, Happy Days by Jacqueline Kay-Hilton, to the Mayor, Cllr Paul Rigby, who accepted it on behalf of the Lytham St Annes Art Collection. I gave it in memory of my mother, Margaret Welford, who was a member of the Lytham St Annes Art Society and who had bought the picture at one of the Society’s exhibitions. Margaret died in October 2007 after an interesting and artistically prolific life.
Ann Chisholm
25 January 2010
