Jacqueline Page

‘Reverse Glass Painting’ is an ancient technique in which paint is applied to the rear of a pane of glass.

It seemed to me to be the obvious choice when I was seeking a technique capable of expressing both the strength and fragility of Life for the creation of portraits of the homeless.

Reverse Glass Painting requires one to work with layering and it led me to work with layers of coloured papers.

Therefter I used it for Landscpes. This subjectmatter allows me to explore light and luminous outlines, transparency, transformation ambivilence, questionning and the gesture which becomes poetry. Since then I have been subdividing and reworking the imagery as one might a Mandala, prior to printing on fabric. Might it one day clothe me?

Trained in architecture, Jacqueline Page is now an « ATD Quart Monde » volunteer (an association fighting against extreme poverty). She has led painting workshops across the world and has livied at Commana since 2013, creating ‘Reverse Glass Paintings’ as a kind of ‘daily spirituality’; images of hope learnt from contact with people who aren’t just nobodies!