Yvonne Jacquette: An Interview

Yvonne Jacquette is a realist painter whose preoccupation has been with light-suffusing interiors and landscapes. Recently she has concentrated on aerial views of rural topology and the cityscape. Her works may seem nearly formalistic in treatment, but in fact they contain quite specific information about the land below and its human network. “I’ve always felt very involved with landscape, even as a child,” Jacquette says in this interview with Kate Horsfield. “It started to seem like the only real subject matter for me with a kind of absolute finality."

A historical interview originally recorded in 1981. Re-edited in 2010.