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 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.
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Read MoreGoals 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.
Click on one of the icons below to follow me on social media and let me know if you found this post helpful! All the best in 2024!
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Read MoreOAC Grants
Early this year, I was given one of the OAC grants for emerging artists. This OAC grant is a $2000 grant that gives funding to purchase art supplies and to participate in educational skill development.
I started applying for OAC grants this past fall and I was excited to have received one. OAC stands for Ontario Arts Council. The OAC grants are a lengthy process to set up an account and submit your application online but they are worth it.
By receiving OAC grants or other grants, artists can receive funding to make projects possible. $2000 is a lot of money and I am grateful to have received this grant as this project would not be financially possible without it.
There are many different OAC grants available. You can learn more by clicking here!
It’s important to note that OAC grants are only for residents in Ontario. However, depending on where you live, the province or state, try Googling grants with your location to find other grants to apply to.
OAC Grants- the OAC Grant Proposal
I will be using the money from the OAC grant to purchase paper making supplies including different types of pulp, mould and deckles and other paper making supplies. I will also be registering for some paper making and letterpress classes to be able to enhance my skills as a paper maker. Lastly, I will use some of the money to rent out a paper making studio place near where I live. I have until 2023 to complete this project. I started purchasing supplies and signing up for workshops this summer of 2022.
I plan on making sheets of map paper using recycled maps and using the letter press to write some of my poems on the paper. I also want to make more large sheets of the map paper to be able to do large installations of my work Patched. You can read more about the Patched project here!
Jackie Partridge, Patched Project
If you are interested in applying to OAC grants you can click here to check their deadlines.
I appreciate the financial support of OAC grants for funding my art practice!
To find out more about the project check out my instagram @jackiepartridge_ and search the #patchedproject
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Read MorePatched Exhibition
For the month of March and April 2022 I will be displaying my work Patched at the Kitchener Public Library in their gallery on the lower floor. This will be a two-person exhibition along with another artist on the opposing wall.
I will be displaying 20 framed Patched installations and some of my nature inspired poems.
Patched is an ongoing series of photographs where map paper (made from maps of places I have been to) is embedded into trees where the bark naturally peels away as an act of offering or mending.
Could the landscape be an archive remembering every mark and every trace set upon it? Will my footprints still be here when I am no longer? For how long will the traces of me stay on the surface of the earth?
featuring two separate exploratory photography exhibits with accompanying poetry by artists Annette Dekker & Jackie Partridge
In celebration of Poetry Month: https://poets.ca/npm/ April 2022
Hello Shadow
Artist: Annette Dekker
Enraged by Shadow’s relentless stalking
The woman behind the camera
turns
shoots
captures the prowler – live,
smirking at her strutting
on a seabed of bleached eelgrass . . .
Annette Dekker is currently in private practice as a psychotherapist. She is fascinated by the capacity of people to heal and to explore their inner worlds. Annette finds joy in photography and writing and sometimes uses these mediums to better understand herself. She surprised herself when the outcome of such exploration became an exhibition. She shares this work in the hope that it inspires others to become acquainted with their own Shadows.
Patched
Artist: Jackie Partridge
I feel for places.
We walk all over them.
We stomp on them.
We forget about them.
Rarely do we visit.
And when we do –
We drop by unannounced.
Coming from a small town and family heritage of farming, Jackie Partridge has visually seen the land developing over time. She has seen and felt both the impacts of climate change and urbanization within her community.
As a mixed media artist, she is interested in expressing the rural landscape in an abstract and poetic way through drawings and installations.
Patched is an ongoing series of photographs where map paper (made from maps of places she has been) is embedded into trees where the bark naturally peels away as an act of offering or mending.
She asks, ‘Could the landscape be an archive remembering every mark and every trace set upon it? Will my footprints still be here when I am no longer? For how long will the traces of me stay on the surface of the earth?’
http://www.jackiepartridge.com/work#/patched/
The Kitchener Public Library is located 85 Queen Street North
Kitchener ON N2H 2H1
Phone: 519-743-0271
The Patched exhibition is on til the end of April, 2022. If you have a chance to see it please share photos on social media by tagging me @jackiepartridge_ or use the #patchedproject.
Purchase my book Patched here -that contains poetry and photographs.
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Read More1963-1974- 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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Read MoreHappy Holidays to You!
I want to wish you Happy Holidays this season!
I wish you health, wealth and happiness!
2021 is going to be the best year yet! The best is truly to come! We all know 2020 has been one roller coaster!
This year brought a lot of changes to my art career. With Covid-19, I could no longer offer in person workshops and switched to offering free online tutorials. Exhibitions I had scheduled were also postponed. I landed a full time teaching contract for more stability during these uncertain times.
I appreciate so many of you following and supporting me along the way - whether it was joining my email list, following me on social media, sharing my work with a friend or liking a post. It all truly helped and meant the world to me!
Thank you for…
Thank you for following this blog and sharing these posts! Thanks for liking my posts on Instagram: @jackiepartridge_ and my acrylic painting account @jackiepartridgeart
This summer I started a new YouTube channel. Although I was terrified I have really enjoyed it. I appreciate all the positive feedback and I love seeing the paintings you have made. You can continue to tag me on instagram @jackiepartridgeart or use the #jackiepartridgeartclasses.
Thank you for supporting my new YouTube channel
Every like, share, subscribe truly means the world to me and allows me to help reach more beginner painters who are struggling.
This year I also started a Facebook page as a way to really connect and start to create a community and share my resources with you.
Thanks for those who have followed along: https://www.facebook.com/jackiepartridgeart/
Lastly thank you for purchasing artwork from me, asking for commissions and considering me as an artist to help decorate your walls and make your house a home!
Thank you for so much love and support this year! As a young emerging artist every like, comment, share, purchase help me work towards my goal of being a full time artist one day!
Have a Safe, Healthy and Happy Holiday Season!
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.
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!
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.
Watch the 3 Tips for Saving Money on Acrylic Painting Video Here!
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.
If you have an idea of a video you would like me to do- let me know in the comments. I appreciate every subscribe, like and comment on my channel.
Conceal - Art Installation by Jackie Partridge
Conceal is a project that was inspired my a previous work Trapped this work is from 2017 by artist Jackie Partridge. In the installation below I use the same hand dyed and hand embroidered dishcloth quilt from Trapped. The dishcloth quilt is made to resemble an aerial view of farmlands. Farming runs in my family as both sets of grandparents and great-grandparents owned farms. I grew up in Wellesley, Ontario, a small town surrounded by farmlands. I watched the land over time develop into subdivision after subdivision. This artwork became symbolic for concealing or covering, protecting and hiding the land. The dishcloths are dyed with inks and acrylic fluids with bright colours of greens, browns, yellows, oranges and pinks to represent the colours and beauty of farm fields. I really wanted to highlight the beauty and vibrancy of the landscape.
I am interested in quilts and fibre art because when I grew up I had 8 grandmothers including great-grandmothers and great-great-grandmothers. So the craft of embroidery and sewing are very important to my family heritage.
With my art practice I often reuse elements and photograph different artwork outside to change and transform the context of the work itself. I see my art evolving and transforming through time similar to how the landscape is in a constant state of change.
This quilt inspired artwork is draped over rocks at my grandmother’s house in Kinmount, ON. Their property is a special place where I enjoy spending my summer. I find being in nature to be a very inspiring place for my work and me as an artist. Photographed by me in summer 2017.
I see the quilt as a symbol of protection, warmth and comfort. Like most quilts are.
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