July Road Trips and Digital Vacation

by Jackie | Aug 7, 2021 | Uncategorized

July was the month of driving, and I don’t mean that lightly. I haven’t added it up but I clocked something in the neighborhood of 3,000 miles on my car between July 7 and 31. It was part vacation, visiting family, bringing family to our house in IL,...

It’s not what you look at, it’s how you see it

by Jackie | Jun 14, 2021 | Artistic Process, Classes, Exhibitions, Galleries

Today is the last day of my work being over at Kettlestrings Tavern in Oak Park, and I am taking a break from teaching classes for the summer – except for co-facilitating a live plein air painting day at the Oak Park Art League on Sunday, June 27 from 10-2:00 to...

Current Shows and Classes

by Jackie | May 17, 2021 | Classes, Exhibitions

My piece in the current exhibition at the Oak Park Art League, “Intersection: Art & Word” is one I thought I finished in 2017, but I had it hanging on my studio wall and every time I walked past it something would make me stop and think,...

Changes

by Jackie | May 2, 2021 | Uncategorized

I will have a piece in the Oak Park Art League’s upcoming show, “Intersection: Art & Word,” which will be up until May 28 (my birthday!). I will also have a piece in the adjacent PopUp Gallery’s “World Collage Day” show, running...

Spring Fever and 100 Day Challenges

by Jackie | Mar 22, 2021 | Uncategorized

I posted this painting of mine on social media over the weekend to celebrate the arrival of Spring, and it is one of the favorite paintings I’ve ever done, created about six months after moving to the lake and inspired by morning walks to the water. It is on...