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I would describe Linda as an amazing artist,

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a shaman, a magician with colour,

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a person who is rooted in nature.

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I believe the universe brought us together

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and immediately started talking about

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collaborating and working together

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and doing these extraordinary things

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and really, really bringing out, challenging
me all the time, you know.

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People saying, you have to meet Jenny Kee,

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and people had been saying,

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You have to meet Linda Jackson.

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And it happened, and we just looked at each other

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and it was like, wow, I know you.

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It was definitely past life experience.

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It was complete collaboration.

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It was complete collaboration.

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but the thing I just am amazed by always

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is the purity of our intention,

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of our creative intention.

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It was always, you know, Linda would have an idea

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and then I would better that idea

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and then she'd better that one
and it would be a spiral.

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Overwhelming as we both are
going through the gallery

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to look at our works with Sonia Delaunay,

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who was a complete inspiration

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for both of us.

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Just to see her works in real life.

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Well, it was just so exciting for us.

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And there we were standing
beside the works of her

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with our works that we had created
around the inspiration from her.

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It was a truly, it was a glorious
experience, you know,

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to go through that year.

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And that's just brought it all back.

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And, you know, working intensely close,

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intensely closely together for the 10 years and then
both developing other parts of our artwork

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that meant we just were the branches
of this incredible tree

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that just had to sort of, like the trunks
this fat and big and huge,

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and then with the strength for these
other two beautiful trees,

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like whenever I see incredible gum
trees and all their beautiful,

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other trunks that come out of it, that was us

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because it was obviously at some point

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we were able to go off into our own other world.

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own other worlds, but having had the strength
and the encouragement as well to go off and

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be wild, being still wild.

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Very clever, but she's another
one pointed out there.

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You know, she's completely on her own.

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She's like completely got this
such a quirky way of

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seeing when you go into her world and her work
and her dolls and her patching and her,

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she is a complete obsessive and I just said, oh,
I'm meeting another sort of wild artist,

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yeah, whose intention of, her
detail is just obsessive.

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You know, when she got down to this little doll,
but this little tiny doll she's got,

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and it's got all the words and
everything's still in.

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and everything's still in it and she's doing it with
one hair brush, one hair of a paintbrush,

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or two hairs of a paintbrush.

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No, she's, she's something else, Adrienne, and that
she managed to do the two of us was a pretty,

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you know, amazing sort of,
it was just, it's a joy.

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I mean, I think it's a joy those portraits,
yeah, and so clever.

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It's sort of groundbreaking in its way, isn't it?

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And to know that that is what the children
are relating to, makes you realize that,

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wow, we did something good.

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So that radical just goes out the window because if
children can relate, then we're really cooking.