Jackie was born in Dublin, Ireland and has settled in Gaithersburg, Maryland after many years of living and working in the UK, France, Ireland and Florida. A few years ago she quit her career in the computer software development field and decided to devote herself to a career in the arts. She recently graduated with an Associate of Fine Arts Degree program from the Corcoran College of Art & Design, Washington DC and since then is the recipient of several awards. Her works have been selected for several juried shows both at a national level and throughout the DC metropolitan area. She enjoys working with different mediums and alternates between the traditional mediums of oil or acrylics and the ancient medium of encaustic wax, combined with digital imagery.

 

Her most recent juried solo shows include Afternoons - Where Drawing Meets Painting at both the Delaplaine Visuals Arts Education Center in Frederick and the Fisher Gallery, Schlesinger Arts Center, Northern Virginia Community College in Alexandria; Blurring The Lines at Dumbarton Concert Gallery, DC and Totally Mixed Media, Gaithersburg City Hall, MD. She also has upcoming solo and group shows for her figure drawings in March at The Arts Barn, Gaithersburg, Strathmore Mansion, North Bethesda in May and Glenview Mansion, Rockville, MD in October 2010. Works from her series Ashes To Ashes – Send Me Your Last Cigarette will be featured in the Amnesty International & Human Rights Festival in Silver Spring in April, 2010 and will be exhibited at the Erik Laurizten Gallery, Truckee Meadows Community College Reno, NV in February 2011.

The soon to be released book Digital Art Revolution by Scott Ligon (publisher Watson-Guptill) will feature Jackie’s digital and encaustic work. Her work has also been reviewed in the Gazette, the Washington City Paper, the Falls Church News-Press, the Richmond Examiner, the Frederick News-Post and the Westmeath Examiner, Ireland.

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