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Name:
Jackie
Location:
Chorley
What do you like about LAS:
Becoming a member of Lodge Artists in 2010 gave me access to a creative community who were encouraging and inspiring and gave me a reason to revisit my love for painting, which had lain dormant for a couple of decades due to work pressures and family.
Mediums used:
I work mainly in acrylic but often mixed media adding pastel, water soluble pencils, inks etc. for texture and depth.
Favourite artists:
Favourite artists have always been the French Impressionists.
Art style:
I now prefer to do large format statement abstracts (1m x 1m) – with a theme such as floral, landscape, water, trees or weather. I also still do more representative, smaller paintings of local views, pets, children when required.
Inspired by:
Have always been inspired by the countryside around me, effects of light and weather, and my travels.
History:
I was painting for a gallery in my home town while still in school, selling hundreds of local views of Lyme Regis. I went to art college in Bristol then went on to work freelance doing line drawings for several breweries, murals for restaurants in London and hundreds of pictorial pub signs, before setting up a graphic design consultancy in Chorley (Primary Graphics).
I keep painting because I still don’t feel I’ve done my very best!
Achievements:
Since being a member I have won awards at our annual exhibition, including ‘Best in Show’ a few times. Have had a few one-man/two-man exhibitions and sold quite well. Proud to have sold one at Liverpool Art Fair this year.
