I would describe Linda as an amazing artist, a shaman, a magician with colour, a person who is rooted in nature.
I believe the universe brought us together and we immediately started talking about collaborating and working together and doing these extraordinary things and really bringing out, challenging me all the time.
People saying, "you have to meet Jenny Kee", and people had been saying, "you have to meet Linda Jackson". And it happened, and we just looked at each other and it was like, "wow, I know you". It was definitely past life experience. It was complete collaboration. But the thing I just am amazed by always, is the purity of our creative intention. Linda would have an idea, and then I would better that idea, and then she'd better that one and it would be a spiral.
It's overwhelming as we are going through the gallery to look at our works alongside Sonia Delaunay's work, who was a complete inspiration for both of us. To see her works in real life was so exciting for us. And there we were standing beside her works with our works that we had created around the inspiration from her. It was a glorious experience to go through that year. And that's just brought it all back.
Working intensely closely together for ten years and then both developing other parts of our artwork that meant we were the branches of this incredible tree, the trunk is fat, big and huge. Whenever I see incredible gum trees and the beautiful trunks that come out of them, that is us. At some point we were able to go into our own other worlds, having the strength and the encouragement to go off and be wild.
She's completely on her own. She has such a quirky way of seeing when you go into her world, and her work, and her dolls, and her patching. She is a complete obsessive and I said, "I'm meeting another wild artist, whose detail is just obsessive". When she got down to this little doll, and it's got all the words and everything's still in it, and she's doing it with one or two hairs of a paintbrush. She's something else, Adrienne, and that she managed to do the two of us was amazing, it's a joy and so clever. It's sort of groundbreaking in its way, isn't it? And to know that is what the children are relating to, makes you realize that, wow, we did something good, because if children can relate, then we're really cooking.
