Jacqui Bassett is an oil & cold wax artist based in the Lake District. My work is about the felt response to place. Those times when we see the majesty of the natural world unfurl —in sunsets, mountains, meadows or streams— we often find that the experience lingers with us.

Working here in such close proximity to these broiling skies and changing light enables me to paint an atmosphere experienced — a mood felt, rather than a literal depiction of the land. My painting process is intuitive. I mainly work from memory, often without preliminary sketches or …

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Jacqui Bassett is a Lake District based artist. Inspired by this beautiful and diverse environment, Jacqui’s work is informed by the drama of landscape, seascape and sky. She creates a sense of mystery and mood in her pieces which are always a little abstracted.

Jacqui Bassett. 2,645 likes. Jacqui Bassett is a Lake District-based artist who, inspired by this beautiful and diverse environment, creates atmospheric and often abstracted landscapes. Originals,...

Jacqui Bassett is an oil and cold wax painter based in the English Lake District. Inspired by this beautiful and diverse environment, her work explores the emotionality of the land, seas and skies of our British Isles.

My name is Jacqui Bassett and I am an oil and cold wax painter based in the English Lake District. Inspired by this beautiful and diverse environment, my work at its core explores the emotionality of the land, seas and skies of our British Isles.

My painting process is intuitive. I mainly work from memory, often without preliminary sketches or photos. Indeed my starting point for a painting is often a walk, although what comes out in a painting can be rooted in something seen days or weeks previously.

Jacqui Bassett is an oil and cold wax painter based in the English Lake District. At its core, her work explores the emotionality of the land, seas and skies of our British Isles. Jacqui paints intuitively, guided far more by how a landscape is experienced than …

Inspired by the beautiful, diverse Lakeland environment, Bassett’s artwork is tethered to the drama of the landscape surrounding her: “Working here, in such close proximity to these broiling skies and changing light, enables me to paint an atmosphere experienced — a mood felt, rather than a literal depiction of the land.”