1958 First visit to Paris for the opening of the Unesco Building and the inaugural exhibition
1956 - 1959 Studied painting at Middlesbrough College of Art
1960 - 1962 Studied painting under William Coldstream and etching under Anthony Gross at the Slade School, London
1962 Made first woodcut prints in Edinburgh.
1962 Awarded French Government Scholarship to study gravure under William Hayter at Atelier 17, Paris
1963 Returned to London and married Judith Jackson. Started part-time work at Chelsea School of Art, London (until 1970). Taught etching at Bath Academy of Art, Corsham (until 1972)
1966 Moved to Parsons Green studio. Built an etching press and made first series of coloured prints and constructed paintings
1967 Daughter Kim born
1968 Son York born
1970 - 1973 Worked in the Foundation Department of Watford School of Art
1973 Stopped regular art school teaching
1974 First visit to New York for the opening of his first one-man exhibition there
1974 Also visited Los Angeles
1974 Started work on illustrations for ‘A Rebours’ by J.K. Huysman
1974 Moved to London Bridge Studio
1974 Spent the summer in Verona working on his first ‘Hotel Room’ watercolours
1975 Travelled to Utrecht for his first Dutch exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art
1975 - 1976 Moved to Providence Rhode Island, USA as visiting Professor at Brown University
1977 Spent time working in Sweden prior to his Gothenburg exhibition
1978 Moved to Wiltshire and started to work on the first mesh paintings
1980 Returned to live and work in North Yorkshire
1981 - 1982 Appointed artist-in-residence at Melbourne University, Australia
1981 - 1982 Travelled to the Simpson Desert. Painted the Open Mesh canvases. Travelled through France, Switzerland and Italy, ‘The First Grand Tour’ working in watercolours
1984 Travelled extensively throughout South Western America making watercolours. Worked on the Bridge Mesh paintings and the Esk Bridge series of etchings
1987 Moved to Westwood Studios in North Yorkshire
1989 Showed the first Westwood Paintings. Began to work on ceramic project at Fulham Pottery
1990 Invited by Mixographia to work in Los Angeles on large scale relief prints. Travelled through California and Arizona
1992 Trip to Ireland to make watercolours of the Lake Isle of Innisfree
1993 Visited Pennsylvania to make a series of watercolours based on Frank Lloyd Wright house “Falling Water”.
1993 Also visited Cooperstown, Lake Otsego and the James Fenimore Cooper collection of Native American artifacts
1994 Travelled in Italy visiting Florence, Ravenna and Mantua. Worked on the Blackhaven Paintings
1995 - 1996 Worked on the Fluxion Paintings
1997 Spent six months living and working in Paris. Paris interiors series
1998 Short-listed for the Jerwood Prize
1996 - 1999 Working and living in North Yorkshire
2000 Publication of “Against the Grain” a major monograph by Norbert Lynton. Started the ‘Encounters’ series
2001 Travelled to the Sates for 6 weeks. Continues work on the ‘Encounters’ series
2002 Travelled to Ireland, worked on a series of watercolours as part of the‘Hardware: Variations on the theme of Encounter’ group of works. Finishes ‘Encounter’ series
2003 Travelled to Tobago, worked on the watercolour series ‘In the South’
Collections
Arts Council of Great britain
Bank of America
Boston Museum of Art
Bradford City Art GAllery
Broadgate Centre, London
Brooklyn Art Museum, New York
Federal Savings Bank, Los Angeles
Fort Worth Art Museum, Texas
Manchester City Art GAllery
Melbourne University, Australia
Middlesbrough Art Gallery
Milton Keynes Development Corporation
Museum of Art, Lodz, Poland
Museum of Art,Varsovie, Poland
Museum of Contemporary Art, Varsovie, Poland
Museum of Contemporary Art, friedrickstad, Norway
Museum of Contemporary Art, Utrecht, Holland
Museum of Modern Art, New York
N.A.S.A., USA
Northern Arts Association
Norwich City Art Gallery
Reading University
Southampton University
Southern Arts Association
The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
The British Council
The mellon Bank, london
The Tate Gallery, london
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Westminster Bank, London
2004 Design etched glass vase “The Prague Vase”
2005 Working on ‘Encounter in a Third Style’ series of wire mesh paintings and ‘The Percival David Watercolours’.
Bernard Jacobsen published a series of digital prints The Arcadian Quest Quartet.
Work begins on a three-dimensional multiple ‘The Charterhouse Equation’
Commissioned to design a stained glass window for Arts and Crafts church at Gunnerton, Northumberland.
2006 “The Revisionist Wire Works” paintings
Selected Exhibitions
2008 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London (solo)
2006 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London (solo)
2004 Eton College, Windsor (solo)
2004 Bernard Jacobson Gallery & Bernard Jacobson Print Gallery, London (solo)
2003 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
2002 - 2003 Bernard Jacobson Gallery & Bernard Jacobson Print Gallery, London
2002 Broadbent Gallery, London (solo)
2002 Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Australia (solo)
2000 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London (solo)
1999 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London (solo)
1999 Charleston Gallery, Sussex (solo)
1997 Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (solo)
1997 Annandale Galleries,Sydney, Australia (solo)
1996 Cleveland Gallery, Middlesbrough (solo)
1995 Belloc Lowndes Fine Art Inc, Chicago (solo)
1995 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London (solo)
1995 Harewood Visual Arts, Leeds (solo)
1994 Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York (solo)
1994 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London (solo)
1994 Wildenstein & Co. Ltd, London (solo)
1994 Royal West on England Academy (solo)
1993 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London (solo)
1993 Adelson Galleries, New York (solo)
1992 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London (solo)
1992 Adelson Galleries, New York (solo)
1992 Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles (solo)
1991 Cleveland Bridge Gallery, Bath (solo)
1991 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London (solo)
1991 Wildenstein & Co. Ltd, London (solo)
1991 Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg (solo)
1990 Images Gallery, Ohio, USA (solo)
1989 Smith Anderson Gallery, California (solo)
1989 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London (solo)
1987 Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh (solo)
1987 Louise Hallett Gallery, London (solo)
1987 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London (solo)
1987 Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles (solo)
1985 Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago (solo)
1983 Bernard Jacobson Galleries, London, New York and Los Angeles (solo)
1982 Melbourne University Gallery, Australia (solo)
1982 Roslyn Oxley Gallery, Sydney (solo)
1982 Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney (solo)
1981 Oriel Gallery, Cardiff (solo)
1981 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Los Angeles (solo)
1980 Nicola Jacobs Gallery. London (solo)
1980 Curwen Gallery, London (solo)
1978 Hobson Gallery, Cambridge
1978 Nuffield Gallery, Southampton University
1978 Ian Birkstead Gallery, London
1978 Stadia Graphics, Sydney
1978 Gallery Malmgran, Gothenburg
1977 Kornblee Gallery, New York
1976 Galerie Ahlner, Stockholm
1976 Asard and Asard, Johanneshov, Sweden
1975 Sunderland Arts Centre
1975 Galerie Jacques Bosser, Paris
1975 Gallery Ariadne, New York
1975 Museum of Contemporary Art, Utrecht
1975 Neue Galerie Museum, Linz
1975 Gallery 39, Manchester
1975 ICA Galleries, London
1974 Atmosphere Gallery, London
1974 Studio La Citta', Verona
1974 Galerie Jacomo-Santiveri, Paris
1973 Galerie Multitude, Paris
1972 Grafiska Sallskapet, Stockholm
1971 Serpentine Gallery, London
1970 Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
1962 Middlesbrough Art Gallery