Jacqueline Scotcher

Dr Jacqueline Scotcher’s art practice is interested in painting what it feels like moving through particular environments. A path motif in various forms has emerged in her work to explore bodily movement. The paths weave into abstract layered compositions that take lived sensations from the external world into imaginary terrain.

Jacqueline’s latest series borrows it’s name from Alison Lester’s classic children’s book, Magic Beach. The abstract paintings draw from observing her two year old’s full-body love for the beach. His energetic meanderings involve wave chasing, sand tossing and rock pool splashing. The combination of the coastal landscape with a toddler’s fresh eyes inevitably influenced Jacqueline’s layered painting style. These paintings celebrate being present in one’s surroundings, weaving paths between the tactile and imagined worlds, which toddlers seems to transition between with ease. A ‘Magic Beach’ is full of curiosity, wonder and attending to the ‘texture’ of everyday life.