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Abigail Ellen Jackson is a contemporary British painter currently based in the North West of England. Her work explores formalism as a subject; the main concerns being colour, mark making, composition, aesthetic value and the materiality of paint. The work aims to visually stimulate and engage the viewer through the formal strategies outlined above. The exploration and experimentation with colour, scale, texture, form and composition has stripped the paintings of observed subject matter which has resulted in a body of work which addresses the formal histories of abstract painting. The paintings are developed through improvisation, and are built up with a series of spontaneous, gestural marks.