Piled Up is made by Jackie Partridge. I created this artwork during my Master of Fine Arts at Concordia University.
Read MoreGrazing
Grazing is an art installation created by myself, Jackie Partridge during my Master of Fine Arts at Concordia University.
Read MoreWhy Buy Art?
Why buy art? There are so many reasons why you should buy art if you have been considering buying some original artwork and starting an art collection for your home.
Read MoreHandmade Paper Art
As a paper maker and fine artist that completed my Master of Fine Arts degree at Concordia University, studying paper making and making handmade paper art. I create paper art both as a home decor for people to purchase and hang in their homes, but also as handmade paper art that can be exhibited in galleries and exhibitions all around the world.
Read MoreHoliday Gift Guide 2024
The holidays are coming up. Have you thought about the gifts that you're going to get everyone? Here is my holiday gift guide 2024. These holiday gifts are perfect for people who love and appreciate art. If you have an art lover in your life, check out my holiday gift guide 2024!
Holiday gift guide 2024
Holiday gift guide 2024- art work
I have lots of original artwork that is for sale in my art shop. BE THE FIRST TO KNOW ABOUT NEW ART COLLECTIONS AND SPECIAL OFFERS- HERE
All of my original art comes unframed and it comes with a certificate of authenticity.
My original art is beautifully packaged and shipped to your door or you can ship it directly to the person you are giving a holiday gift for.
I have cyanotype printed art using wildflowers, leaves, or ferns. You can click the button below to check out my cyanotype original I have two different sizes a large size and a medium size to large size is 9" x 12" and a I have cyanotype printed art using wildflowers, cedar leaves, ferns, and other flowers, you can click the button below to check out my cyanotype originals. I have two different sizes a large size and a medium size the large size is 9" x 12" and the small size is 4" x 6" approximately.
Fern Cyanotype 3
CA$100.00
Handmade paper art
I have handmade paper art using paper pulp on vintage doilies. This artwork is great for a vintage lover or an avid crafter who enjoys or appreciates crocheting. These artworks come in all kinds of different colours. There are white and beige as there are also pink and blue, a colour that suits the personality of your person who is on your gift list.
If you have someone who has a minimalist design style, I have beautiful handcrafted beige sheets of paper that have an embedded stone embroidery that come in a variety of colours.
I also sell sheets of handmade paper made with denim and also recycled roadmap. The roadmap paper is a great gift to give someone who loves traveling and has an adventurous spirit. The denim paper art would look beautiful displayed in a laundry room or a child's bedroom.
Rainbow Field 4
CA$120.00
If you would like to get someone a gift card for my art shop you can click the button below to purchase a digital copy of the gift cardYou can choose your own gift card amount and send it to the person for the holidays this 2024 season.
If you want to send holiday cards you can check out my cyanotype cedar print cards. These cards have a blank interior where you can fill out a detailed notes. Afterwards the card can be cut and framed to display a beautiful cyanotype art prints in the home of the person receiving the card.
Holiday gift guide 2024- art commissions
To learn more about having a piece of artwork commissioned by me click on the post below. My art commissions start at $300 or $65 for cyanotypes. Get in touch with me to chat about your idea by filling out the form below!
Holiday gift guide 2024- art prints and printed goods
And check out the button below to see various art print ticketI have cyanotype Prince printed on mugs duffel bag backpacks shower curtain throw pillows blankets towels and more.Click the button below to shop.
Be sure to sign up for my mailing list by filling out the contact form below to save 15% off of artwork in my shopIf you are interested in having a piece of artwork commissioned by Niki be sure to clickThe button below to find out more information about my art work commission make sure to get in contact with me soon so that I have time to complete your artwork commission before the holidays
Thank you so much for considering to get the gift of art this holiday season I hope you have enjoyed my holiday gift guide 2024.
It means a lot to shop small and support artists, thank you for considering to do that. The person you are shopping for will love and appreciate receiving something that is handcrafted made from love and will last generation. They are building their art collection and are able to have a piece of artwork that they can display proudly in their home they can look at the piece of art daily and reflect on the love and connection that you share by picking out the special piece of art for their home. Artwork is something that can last generation and it is something that is beautiful and inspirational to look at.
I appreciate your support this holiday season and I hope you have enjoyed the holiday gift guide 2024 thank you for shopping mall I'm supporting an artist and a small business thank you so much!
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Check out my printed cyanotypes on various products like mugs, pillow cases, towels, etc.
Goals for 2024
Each year I complete goals for my art business. Here are my goals for 2024 focused on the fine art side of my art business. I have two parts of my art business: a side on art education and a side on my artist/fine art side. Read more to learn about my goals for 2024! What are your goals for 2024?
Goals for 2024
Last year I was over ambitious when it came to my goals. I was pregnant and had my son in April 2023. I was more tired than I expected and wasn’t able to achieve a lot of the goals I wanted. We also bought our first home and moved in while I was nine months pregnant. So, 2023 was a very busy year to say the least!
This year, my goals for 2024 I want to be more realistic in what I want to achieve now that I know how much work a baby and new house bring.
Here are my goals for 2024!
2000 people on my email list
Run ads to market business
Take my business full time by making more money than I did as a teacher
Offer cyanotype commissions
Have 2-5 exhibitions
Receive 1-2 artist grants
Growing my fine art Instagram to 1000 followers
Participate in 1-2 art markets
Get my artwork or prints in a local shop
Take more photos from the series Patched and Tree Houses
Sometimes it helps to dream a little. If I set goals too easy I might get bored and not put the effort in to make them happen. It can be hard to have the balance of goals being too hard or too simple. This year I want to work on focusing on implementing and getting things done. Even just a couple small things add up and make the difference over time.
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Read MoreWinding Road- Art Installation by Jackie Partridge
Winding Road -art installation from 2016 completed in Montreal by artist Jackie Partridge. Here is an art installation from my archive. Winding Road is an art installation from 2016. It is made from Mylar, ink, and thread. It measures 18’x 3.’ I made this work while completing my MFA at Concordia university in Montreal, QC.
I loved using ink and seeing how it pooled to dry making interesting overlapping line drawings. This artwork was inspired by driving along the countryside and looking out the window. This work later turned into an art book - you can see that here!
I chose to paint and draw on a frosted mylar because I like how it looks foggy and isn’t fully transparent. It has a really nice effect when it is backlit with lights in an art exhibition.
I later turned these paintings into Fielding Through and Field of Green. For the work Fielding Through I sewed some of these pieces together using white thread and my sewing machine to create an accordion style book that was able to stretch and pull a part. For Field of Green some of the larger pieces were hung on the wall behind the sheet curtain of painted fabric.
As an artist, I often rework my artwork to add to it or to morph it into new artwork or installations. I like that art is able to change and evolve over time. By taking a look at my current artwork below you will be able to see some similarities between pieces as art is inspired by previous pieces.
Winding Road ink on mylar installation by Jackie Partridge
Detail of Winding Road by Jackie Partridge
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Fielding Through - inspired by this piece
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1963-1974- Artwork by Jackie Partridge
This is an older work from 2015 called 1963-1974 by Jackie Partridge. The artwork is less than 2’ by 2’. I completed this artwork during my undergraduate degree at Lakehead University. I created it as part of my art portfolio when I was applying to my Master of Fine Arts at Concordia University in the Fibres and Material Practices Program.
Polaroids and machine sewing - form a patchwork quilt of memories with old family photos. The photographs are arranged by colour to help the chevron pattern emerge. My grandmother was sorting through family photos and gave me a collection of photographs. I asked if I could cut them and turn them into an artwork and she said yes. There’s something weird about cutting up family photographs and replacing a part of them to form a new memory. I sewed the photographs with a zig zag stitch on my sewing machine in white thread.
Polaroids are such a nostalgic medium and have become trendy again. Working with this medium of found Polaroids really speaks to the time period and the moment that captured the photograph. I love the colours from the pictures and how they have faded over time. Some of the photographs even have my grandmother’s handwriting on the bottom of them.
I am very interested in quilts, sewing and textile art because when I grew up I had 8 grandmothers including great-grandmothers and great-great-grandmothers. The craft of quilting and sewing are very important to my family heritage and to myself.
You can see the detail of 1963-1974 below!
Sewn Polaroids by Jackie Partridge
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Trail - Arm Knitted Installation by Jackie Partridge
Trail detail by Jackie Partridge, arm-knitted lace strips
Trail by Jackie Partridge is a work from my art archive that I made while living in Montreal and going to school for my MFA. This fiber artwork is very performative as I used the knitting process to create it. The act of knitting is very repetitive and labour intensive. It is the same motion over and over again. Learn more about this textile artwork below!
Trail
1’x 20', found lace, sewing and arm knitting, 2016.
The work was displayed at Ancienne École des Beaux Arts for the end of year MFA exhibition “Maureen” in 2016.
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This art installation is made by cutting long strips of found lace curtains. The strips of lace were sorted by colour from a yellow cream colour all the way to a pure white at the bottom of the piece. The colour created a nice gradient. The strips were then sewn together to create a very long strip that was then wrapped like a ball of yarn. This process was repeated twice. Like knitting, I used my arms as the “knitting needles” and continued to knit for over an hour to create this 20 foot long installation that was suspended from the top of the staircase. I knit continuously since I used my arms as the knitting needles.
When this piece is lit it produces some beautiful shadows from the design of the white lace.
I have also displayed this textile artwork outside in the snow. You can see the photograph at the bottom. I liked draping it in the snow and seeing how it dragged across the snow.
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Outdoor installation of Trail by Jackie Partridge in the snow
August 2020 YouTube Painting Tutorials Recap!
I started an acrylic painting YouTube channel >> Jackie Partridge Art << on Sunday July 5, 2020. Here is a list of YouTube videos that were posted to my channel this month as a little recap. In case you might’ve missed some of these painting tutorials on my YouTube acrylic painting channel!
You can read the descriptions of the videos before clicking the link to see the video.
You can watch these videos for free at anytime. If you have a YouTube account you can click the clock in the top right corner of the video to save it to your “Watch List” to watch it for later.
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If you like a video be sure to hit the “thumbs up” to like it or share it with a friend!
Let’s take a look at the videos for this month!
Painting With Posca Pens -The Basics!
In this acrylic painting tutorial for beginner artists I show you the basics of working with Posca Pens and incorporating them in your acrylic paintings! This video is perfect for people of all ages - I recommend age 9 and up for this video as having coordination with drawing, fine motor skills will be helpful for this art material. Learn how to use a Posca Pen, What are Posca Pens?, Ideas for using Posca Pens in your painting and more. This is video is for people who have never used a Posca Pen before and to provide them with a basic introduction.
Watch the Painting with Posca Pens Video Here!
Video Length: 12 min. 14 sec.
Palette Knife Basics
How do you use Palette Knives? What are Palette Knives? What Palette Knife is right for you? I will help you answer these questions in this quick video paint lesson. Learn about the difference between plastic and wooden palette knives and find the one right for you. Gain confidence in learning about palette knives to be able to create beautiful and textured abstract acrylic paintings! Fall in love with palette knives and explore the possibilities of palette knife painting.
Watch the Palette Knife Basics Video Here!
Video Length: 5 min. 8 sec.
Palette Knife Cloud Painting
This painting lesson is perfect for beginners with no experience using a palette knife before! Recommended age is 9 and up! This is an easy art technique and painting lesson to try --- learn a new simple acrylic painting technique to add to your skill development today! In this video art lesson -learn how to paint a cloudy sky with a palette knife. Learn about colour mixing with a palette knife, painting layers, creating texture, palette knife technique and how to paint clouds.
Watch the Palette Knife Cloud Painting Video Here!
Video Length: 27 min. 40 sec.
3 Acrylic Painting Tips To Save You MONEY!
3 Tips for Saving Money on Acrylic Painting! Check out this video and learn three tips for saving money on acrylic painting. Perfect tips for a beginner painter or intermediate painter of all ages.
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Video Length: 7 min. 53 sec.
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Flower Printing is a great technique to create an abstract painting and is a fun project to try with kids!
Flower Printing
Flower Printing is a fun painting technique for any age! You could even try this technique with toddlers. This is a great technique to add to your painting. You can create a beautiful texture and layer your designs. Flower printing is great for abstract painting, fun experiments, collage or mixed media art.
Watch the Flower Printing Video Here!
Video Length: 16 min. 26 sec.
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Fall Exclusive Painting Video
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Read MoreJuly 2020 YouTube Painting Tutorials Recap!
Check out my Jackie Partridge Art YouTube Channel. Here is a list of YouTube videos that were posted to my channel this month as a little recap. To see some acrylic painting tutorials you might’ve missed!
You can read the descriptions of the videos before clicking the link to see the video.
You can watch these videos for free at anytime. If you have a YouTube account you can click the clock in the top right corner of the video to save it to your “Watch List” to watch it for later.
Be sure to subscribe to my channel —you can click the bell beside the subscribe button on YouTube to receive notifications of when new videos are added!
If you like a video be sure to hit the “thumbs up” to like it or share it with a friend!
Let’s take a look at the videos for this month!
Art Supplies
I recommend watching this video first! It is a great introduction to acrylic painting and I will show you and explain the different acrylic painting supplies you need to get started. It’s nice to visually see the supplies you need. Buying art supplies can be a bit overwhelming at first but I help guide you to make this process easier!
Watch the Art Supplies Video- HERE
Video Length: 11 min. 40 sec.
In this video I go over basic supplies needed for acrylic painting to get you started! Check it out here:
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Mixing Green
This video is great for developing your skills. Mixing green is not as simple as mixing yellow and blue paint. If you are great at mixing greens then you will be able to mix a variety of greens and will be able to paint more realistic landscape paintings.
Watch the Mixing Greens Video- HERE
Video Length: 13 min. 20 sec.
Mixing Grey
Mixing grey is not as simple as black + white. The more variety you have in your colours the more interesting your paintings will be! This video is a quick way to develop your colour mixing skills and make more professional looking paintings!
Watch the Mixing Greys Video- HERE
Video Length: 8 min. 15 sec.
How to Paint a Campfire
Learn how to paint a campfire! This video is a workshop I have ran with kids as young as 7 and adults. This video tutorial is recommended for kids age 7 and up! (it can be challenging for the younger ones but if a child is creative and loves learning -this is for them) Learn how to paint trees, paint a night sky and of course a campfire. This is a great introductory painting for a beginner to try!
Watch the Campfire Painting Video- HERE
Video Length: 40 min. 41 sec.
Painting a Mermaid Tail
This is the perfect video lesson for age 7+ an amazing painting for beginners to try! This fun painting will explore mixing greens, printing with household objects to create texture and more! Learn how to paint this fun underwater mermaid tail!
Watch the Mermaid Tail Painting Video- HERE
Video Length: 28 min. 38 sec.
Painting Clouds
This video is a bit more challenging than some of the other videos. I recommend trying some other painting tutorials first. This video is great for an intermediate painter but of course beginner painters are welcome to give this a try! Painting clouds can be hard! In this video you will learn to paint more realistic clouds, how to paint a sky and creating highlights and shadows.
Watch the Painting Clouds Video- HERE
Video Length: 16 min. 46 sec.
This is a Painting Tutorial all about painting Skies and Clouds - Perfect for an intermediate acrylic painter! Check it out here: https://youtu.be/RNGKfQ2B20k
Painting Round Realistic Forms
In this video I show how to paint round forms and use the example of eggs in a nest. You will learn about brushstrokes and direction of shading. Learn about colour mixing, shadows and highlights to create a realistic round form. This is the perfect video for beginners or youth to try!
Watch the Painting Round Realistic Forms Video- HERE
Video Length: 15 min. 5 sec.
Painting a Lemon
This video is about painting a still life or a lemon in this case. Learn colour mixing, painting texture, highlights and shadows, choosing a background colour and more. This is a great video for beginners or intermediate painters.
Watch the Painting a Lemon Video- HERE
Video Length: 29 min. 41 sec.
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Read MoreTrapped -Art Installation by Jackie Partridge
Trapped is an art installation from 2016 by Jackie Partridge that I completed during my MFA. In this installation I hand dyed and hand embroidered dishcloths and sewed them together as a large quilt. I want the quilt to be seen as an aerial view of farmlands.
Above the quilt drapes a large sewn thread installation -made from white thread. The sewn piece is stitched on a dissolvable surface. The sewn structure mimics that shape of my hometown as viewed from a map and inside the shape are rows and rows of a basic symbol of a house shape.
Detail of sewn net, part of Trapped installation by Jackie Partridge
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Read MoreGroup Exhibition at the O Gallery, 2020
Check out a group exhibition for artist Jackie Partridge. To see my textile artwork and handmade paper art.
Rainbow Field 6
CA$120.00
I am excited to announce that I am a part of a group of two other artists showing exhibitions at the O Gallery on 44 Gaukel St. in Kitchener, ON, Canada.
I will be showing work I have curated for a theme of Fields. This work includes past work of my hand dyed, hand embroidered dish cloths that are beautifully framed and work of my sewn thread line drawings embedded in abaca sheets of handmade paper that are for sale.
Fields is an abstract representation of aerial views of farmlands. I have grown up close to farming and fields and have visually seen the landscape change over time and become more developed.
The exhibition is on view from January 15-March 6, 2020.
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Field of Green - Art Installation by Jackie Partridge
Field of Green by Jackie Partridge
Photo Credit: Eliane Excoffier
Field of Green, ink and acrylic fluids on polyester with ink on Mylar, 2016 - by Jackie Partridge
The piece is approximately 19 feet long. The piece has sewn in magnets and it suspends slightly away from the wall resting on nails. I’m happy with how this installation turned out as it was quite complicated to plan and ensure that the fabric and magnets were evenly placed. It was difficult to install Field of Green. I completed this large and colourful artwork during my Master of Fine Arts at Concordia University while I was in the Fibres and Material Practices Program.
I love using Golden Acrylic Fluids because there is less of a water concentration and it is more of a pure pigment so the colours are a lot more bright and vibrant. I started painting with inks on sheer, transparent fabric during my undergraduate degree at Lakehead University. I started painting on mylar which is a transparent plastic type paper during my Master of Fine Arts degree at Concordia University. I like the way the colours dry and layer on top of each other creating rings of colour and interesting lines.
When the ink is applied to the polyester it creates these abstract and organic forms. Layer after layer is applied. I love playing with transparency and layers and being able to see the painted mylar underneath the layer of sheer fabric.
This artwork is inspired by my family heritage of farming and the countryside surrounding my hometown in Wellesley, ON. Both of my grandparents were farmers and my mom’s parents owned a family century owned farm. The bright colours chosen highlight the beauty of the landscape and the vastness of the farmland that surrounds my hometown and where I grew up.
Detail of Field of Green by Jackie Partridge
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Fielding Through- Painted Drawing with Ink by Jackie Partridge
Fielding Through by Jackie Partridge
22’x12,” ink and acrylic fluids on Mylar, 2016
Fielding Through is an accordion style book that stretches out creating a long continuous 22' field. Each drawing of the field is painted abstractly with coloured ink and fluid acrylics by Golden. The work was inspired by my hometown Wellesley, ON and the continuous views of farmlands that blur as the car drives past all the fields.
This artwork is inspired by my family heritage of farming. Both of my grandparents were farmers and my mom’s parents owned a family century owned farm. This piece highlights the beauty of the landscape and how expansive it is. I chose bright and vibrant colours to highlight the beauty. Fields, nature and landscapes are common inspiration for my artwork and art installations.
I love using Golden Acrylic Fluids because there is less of a water concentration and it is more of a pure pigment so the colours are a lot more bright and vibrant. I started painting with inks on sheer, transparent fabric during my undergraduate degree at Lakehead University. I started painting on mylar which is a transparent plastic type paper during my Master of Fine Arts degree at Concordia University. I like the way the colours dry and layer on top of each other creating rings of colour and interesting lines. Since the mylar paper is transparent you can also see layers of the coloured washes from the previous pages in the book.
This piece is inspired by my work Field of Green, which is a large painted field on sheer white fabric with painted fields on large sheets of mylar that are pinned to the wall. The fabric drapes away from the wall.
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