Bill Jacklin

From his early abstractions to his more recent figurative works, Bill Jacklin's paintings and prints are united by their acute renderings of the visual effects of light, shadow, and movement. Jacklin was inducted into the Royal Academy of Arts in 1989; in 1991 he was elected to the Academy's steering committee. Trained in graphic design at the Walthamstow School of Art in the early 1960s, he worked in London before returning to Walthamstow to study painting, later enrolling at the Royal College of Art. Jacklin painted in an abstract style early in his career, but in the mid-1970s he became drawn to figuration as a means of capturing motion. In 1985 Jacklin moved to New York. Inspired by the frenetic energy of the city, he depicted pulsating scenes including throngs of commuters bustling through Grand Central Station, park-goers congregating under Central Park's cherry trees, and bundled figures rushing through a snow-blanketed Times Square.