Float with Me to Distant Lands, 2023
Jackie Berridge’s paintings are a mash of inspiration from childhood memories, dreams, and traditional stories. She creates fantastical landscapes populated with people and anthropomorphic creatures, telling tales of joy and sadness mixed with shades of darkness. Her latest work provides refuge from recent events including the pandemic and the war in Ukraine. She is reminded of waking up from a bad dream or a recurring nightmare when the challenge is to change the ending. Through drawing and painting she explores ways of avoiding the horror by creating various shelters, bothies and dwellings for sanctuary and exploring the potential of transformation.