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Wendy Jacob was born in Wigan, Lancashire and brought up and educated in London, studying at the Hammersmith College of Art. From 1963 to 1990 she was a freelance illustrator for national newspapers, magazines, and books (including Elizabeth David's Bread Book). She began painting in the 1980s and started exhibiting in 1989. Since then she has contributed work to some 40 exhibitions. She was elected an Associate of the Royal Watercolour Society in 2005.
She writes: "I approached my earlier work as an illustrator, painting mainly still life and interiors. Landscape has become my main preoccupation in recent years, using tone to create strong form and explore the transformation that different light brings to a subject, looking for the spirit and atmosphere of the place rather than a topographical rendering."
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