Jaques’ paintings tend towards the figural rather than the landscape. Associative imagery is enmeshed into his improvisatory abstraction. It is not cooked up, nor is the imagery fiddled with in order to achieve that coy fashionable poise in which visual signs say - “I’m not this and that but I do look a little bit like I might be”. On the other hand, the painting is neither naïve nor chance-generated. Jaques strives towards innocence and a cultured simplicity and freshness, such as one finds in the work of the English painter, Roger Hilton. Rows of dots, squiggles and dashes have wriggled free of the architecture of design to take on a rhythmic, biomorphic liveliness. It is “brut” Miro. His colour has a particular raw, brassy flavour that brings to mind not only Miro but also Picasso and the Cobra painters.

John Cornall
From The Eagle Gallery catalogue 1993