Jacqueline White - Biography
My oils are done primarily on location wherever my travels take me and are an expression of mood and emotion manifested through the beauty of the landscape. A deep desire to partake in a dialogue with nature and a quest to infuse a moment of truth within the canvas is why I paint. This spontaneous process invigorates the work and is imbued with the spirit of nature as it is created in communion with the wind and sunlight itself.
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Biography
Jacqueline White, a Connecticut artist, enjoys plein air painting wherever she travels and is most drawn to shoreline views. Employed many years as graphic artist she left the field and came back to her first love, oil painting.
As a child Jacqueline roamed the adjoining acreage of nursery land owned by her grandparents as well as the nearby wood, either alone or with one or more of her four brothers. When she received a sketch book from her aunt for her birthday, Jacqueline began sketching trees and eventually landscape. Her mother, wanting to nurture this interest even further, enrolled Jacqueline at the age of 12, in private oil painting lessons with Joseph Gionfriddo. A former student of Guy Wiggins, the famous American Impressionist, Gionfriddo instilled in her a love of traditional oil painting. After his death three years later, Jacqueline left with a passion and desire to follow in his footsteps and become a painter.
In those days traditional art was not offered in art school, a craft then dominated by abstract and modern expressionism; therefore, Jacqueline went on to earn a degree in Graphic Arts from the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale. She worked in the field for many years. Selling paintings on side, her work earned her money to scuba dive; trips to Bimini, Bahamas, the Keys, and Cozumel became some of her favorite spots which inspired a love of seascapes.
Jacqueline's aging grandparents drew her back to Connecticut and she now resides in Glastonbury with her husband and teenage daughters. The events of 911 pushed her to leave behind graphics, and she began taking workshops with the Plein Air Painters of America, David Lussier and many others. Jacqueline continues to further her studies at the Lyme Academy College of Fine Art in Old Lyme where she has been awarded a merit based scholarship.
Her professional memberships include the Glastonbury Art Guild,The Connecticut Academy of the Fine Arts, Connecticut Woman Artists, the Connecticut Plein Air Painters Society and Art Associations in Essex, Lyme, Marlborough, Mystic, CT and Wickford, Rhode Island.
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- City:
- Glastonbury
- State/Province:
- CT
- Phone Number:
- (860) 633-7701