Jacqui Parker is a fine artist based in Dorset and her practice involves drawing, charcoal and documentation photography. She walks frequently to collect ideas in the local woodlands and landscapes. Photography allows her to record anything of which sparks interest and intrigue; a dark shadowed corner or a dazzling light beam.

Abstract drawings are then created in a response to the photographed landscapes using a variety of practices, including: charcoal, pastels, rubbers, brushes, rags and paper stumps on cartridge paper. She damages the surface of paper by ripping, scraping and scratching it away to reveal hidden stories. As well as this she works with, detailed, mystical, natural patterns.

She often loses herself in the fragments and powder of charcoal, adding multiple layers of this beautiful organic material. Wiping these marks away she leaves a faint trace of the former image, building on ideas and responding to the landscape, while expanding the story within the image.