JHS Fine Art

Here I am…

Jack Hernandez (Jack H Strange) is a Gibraltarian artist/writer currently studying for a bachelors degree of fine art at the University of Northampton. He is interested in displaying his love for what he calls ‘the two blues’, the sky and the sea. Growing up near the beaches of Gibraltar and southern Spain, Jack has always had a love and admiration for the views of the sea and sky from the beach, as well as the many places he had travelled to that included beaches. Along with beach-inclusive paradises, Jack has travelled to several countries worldwide with his family, and for the most half they travel to countries including beaches, like Portugal or other European countries, or even the state of Hawaii. As goes his love for the Winter season, Jack has a main fondness of the beach, to which he spends his Summers enduring and adoring the breeze near the seas. The clear blue skies in his travels as well as the constant presence of the sea are the best representations of his mind at a peaceful place, rather than the hustle and bustle of everyday city life.

Jack’s preferred mediums consist of oil paints and charcoal, to capture the proper fluidity of his memory in travelling. Charcoal His use of impasto oil paint is meant to bring the viewer towards the scenery, as if they could step into the memory of a foreign land, or a paradise.

To Jack, the difference between foreign land and paradise is entirely up to you.