Biography
Jamie Poole was born in 1973 in
Northampton, England. He studied at the School of Design and
Ceramics in Stoke-on- Trent Staffordshire for a
BA Honours Design: Surface Pattern
and graduated in 1996. Jamie has exhibited
widely around the UK where his work has primarily been Landscape
paintings and a hand printed ‘Landscape Sofa’.
In recent years he has been an active member of
the arts event known as ‘Open Studios’ in Northamptonshire
and has produced commissioned
works for private clients. Jamie continues to be inspired by his
job as a teacher of Art at Northampton School for Girls where he
has been working for the last 8 years. Sophie’ is the first
of a new series of work in which he uses the printed word to create
an image.
The things that make people who they are come from their
experiences of the world around them and the people they meet.
For Sophie, the sitter in this portrait, English
literature has been a
great passion. The verses of a specially selected collection of
poems have been carefully dissected and layered on the support of
this painting to create her portrait. The text meanders and flows
around the curves of her features and is embedded deep in her eyes
creating an intricate mosaic surface. The tales in the typography
have become entwined within her image and are part of
Sophie’s identity.
The creation of this work has been an intimate meditation and
contemplation of the sitter. Jamie Poole has created a portrait
that brings him closer to his subject. The narratives that are
collaged create bonds between his practice through the process and
the relationship of the artist to his sitter. As text is layered
the words, lines and phrases are repeated and embedded into the
work creating a unifying physicality.
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