jacqueline Dabron

“My painting is essentially an expressionistic response to my physical environment, with roots in a broad scope of Post Impressionism and 20th Century Expressionism. I like to think of my paintings as visual songs, feelings from within welling outwards, caught in paint and weaving their melodies to energise, inspire and enhearten the viewer.”

Jacqueline Dabron (b. 1943) is a Tamworth-based painter whose vibrant, expressionistic works in oil span landscape, still life, and portraiture. Born in Springwood, NSW, to renowned artist Jean Isherwood and John Dabron, Jacqueline was immersed in a rich world of art, music, and ideas from an early age—a creative inheritance that continued to inform her practice.

After early years teaching and travelling through Europe, she undertook formal training at the National Art School in Sydney from 1966 to 1969, graduating with a Diploma in Education (Art). She taught in Sydney high schools before dedicating herself to full-time painting in 1974, working alongside her mother in shared studios at Avoca Beach and later in the Moonbi Ranges near Tamworth.

Following a period devoted to motherhood from 1984 to 1991, Jacqueline resumed her practice in 1992 with renewed energy. She has since held numerous solo exhibitions and exhibited in joint shows with her mother.

Her work is held in private collections both in Australia and internationally, as well as in several regional galleries and public collections across the country.