regulations. Nature presented the next obstacle: Jacqui typically made the decorations on plywood panels, which she then attached to the walls; but the elements degraded the façade and it required continual restoration. Sometimes this weathering led to successful improvisations, which Jacqui describes: “For example, I used the cracking and lifting of the material to slip a mixture of sand and varnish underneath, which amassed when drying and brought a kind of volume, like a
scarring blister that added matter to the art work.” Unfortunately, there were times when the damage was irreparable, at which point Jacqui removed everything and started again from scratch. After her husband Claude’s death in 2000, Jacqui undertook her fourth round of restoration, and it became a pivotal development in her creative methods. She made sculptures from reinforced cement using mostly cast glass, and coated the joints with acrylic
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