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Installing a large drawing in the Conningsby Gallery Window, 2007
Introduction
NEWS
Jackie has work selected for the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Show 2010 and 2011 will be an exciting year with two international residencies in Chicago and Gotland, Sweden
Since graduating from Nottingham Trent University in 1995 with a First Class Honours degree, Jackie has exhibited locally and nationally - in both group and solo exhibitions. Her abstract paintings inspired by the human anatomy have reached a wide audience. 'Extracting Anatomy' was shown at the Yard Gallery, Wollaton Hall, Nottingham in 2002 attracting 11,000 visitors. That year was crowned with two other solo shows at the Derby Museum & Art Gallery and the Royal College of Pathologists, London.
Childrens Book Illustration
Jackie's career took a new direction when she studied Children's Book Illiustration at Cambridge when she moved from large abstract paintings to children's book illustration. This was largely due to a change in circumstances as well as a desire for new challenges.
Jackie had spent a year in France setting up and delivering painting holidays in the Dordogne. She returned to the UK in 2004 to Chelmsford, Essex where there were no studios to continue her work as an abstract painter. She enrolled on a Children's Book Illustration MA, partly because she had always been interested in children's books but also to develop her creativity on a small scale.
Sketch Books
Her sketch-books had always been a catylist for ideas and images in her fine art, but Jackie also recognised these could be developed more figuratively in picture books. Elements of her work as a painter have trickled through to her illustrations: her new work is a fusion of abstract and figurative. She is making large-scale sequential drawings and a book based on the story of Grace. These different formats recreate the same story - contrasting the physicallity of large drawings with the initmacy of a book.
Figurative Painting
Since 2007 Jackie has developed figurative paintings, combining the painterly qualities of the abstract work with the narrative skills learned as a children's book illustrator.
Harrington Mill Studios

As well as making art Jackie ihas established 18 artists' workspaces in Long Eaton, Nottingham on the first floor of a victorian lace factory. For further details visit www.harringtonmillstudios.co.uk
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