Jacquie Blakeley – Artist and Garden Creator
Passions: drawing, painting, animals and garden creating.
After a career as a square peg in a round hole I am now pleased to say that art has taken over and I am free to paint and create gardens to my heart's content. Taking everything from nature and reproducing it in my own style, either in watercolours, oils or pencil, or in the form of keeping a unique garden which reflects the passion of it's creator. Travel has opened my eyes to many cultures and there is an Eastern influence as well as a Western influence in my work.
My art work is mainly watercolour, but I have worked in inks, pencil, and oils as well. Subjects are taken from perhaps a scene I have noticed whilst carrying on with every day life. I am lucky in so far as I live in the country. I enjoy portraying natural scenes which involve trees, animals, birds, water, reflections, local people and so forth. Sometimes I draw or paint imaginary 'fantasy' pictures. Commissions have been more animal portraits than other work. I have done some illustration work and numerous garden design and build projects, including show gardens.
I can be contacted on 0044 (0)7836 549361 and appointments can be made to come to my studio to see the variety of work I have done. My style varies and can be quite photographic but also can be quite free, depending on the subject and how I wish to portray the subject.