About the Artist
JACQUELINE ENGLAND GALLERY OF FINE ARTS
Jacqueline England resides in the Mississauga, Ontario, Canada area, but was born in Nottingham, England, and immigrated to Canada as a young child. She returned to the U.K. to further her education and while there, she became introduced to the realm of horses, and as a young teen, spent many a day “mucking out”, grooming, riding and showing horses. That was a turning point in Jacqueline’s life, and upon returning to Canada, saved her money until she had enough to buy her first horse. That was the beginning of a long friendship between her and the several horses that she raised, trained, owned and showed over the years.
Horses weren’t Jacqueline’s only love, she adored cats, dogs, and all wildlife, and has included these in her repertoire of art. During her spare time, she took up the art of designing artist bears, and these unique hand-designed bears have appeared in numerous shows and gift shops throughout Ontario and has been featured in bear magazines throughout Canada, the United States and Britain.
Upon retiring she turned her first love of owning horses to painting them and under the tutelage of Michael Spillane of the Spillane Studio of Fine Arts, she realized that dream of putting to canvas not only her detail of horses but of the many wildlife and domestic animals that had also captured her interest over the years. Jacqueline finds that drawing her subject first in fine detail before placing it on canvas gives her further insight into her subject.
Jacqueline, has worked in various mediums, such as pastel, watercolour, gouache, acrylic, graphite and also oil. She decided to continue with oils as she loved the intense colour that could be achieved using them. When she paints, it is imperative that she strives to create photo-realism, especially for her horses, as they brought back memories, as she felt her paint brush move over the details of the head, find the light in their eyes, feel the muscles of their beautiful bodies. As long as she could picture in her mind her hand moving over the body of a horse, she would achieve the height of realism she demanded.
Jacqueline’s greatest wish is that upon viewing her paintings, the viewer will be able to feel and see what she saw while painting all these gorgeous creatures of nature and to have a greater insight of the animal it portrays.
Awards:
In April 2015 Jacqueline was selected to paint one of the 27 Fibreglass horses that were to be displayed by Headwaters Tourism, the Ontario marketing organization, representing Dufferin County and the Towns of Caledon, Erin, Mono and Shelburne in the Province of Ontario. These horses were to be created in celebration of the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games, and the Headwaters sent out a province wide call for artists, this was an exciting moment for Jacqueline, and an honour to be selected.
The Parade of Horses was since selected as first place winner of the Canadian Tourism Awards for 2016.
Ross Millar, Chair of the Headwaters Equine Leadership Group stated, "This amazing group ............... willingly donated their time, inspiration and creativity to bring this project to life, as a legacy to the equestrian events of the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games that were hosted in Headwaters this past summer. This initiative came to life because of their commitment."
It was truly an honor.
October, 2017: I couldn’t be more excited or honored that my artwork "Shadows" was selected out of 2,000 pieces to be showcased at Art Design Consultants for their annual art competition and exhibit Art Comes Alive. My work will be on view at gallery October 14th through November 30th.
October, 2017: My painting, "SHADOWS", was selected as part of the FAV15% (jury's favorite 15% of the entries) in the September 2017 BoldBrush Painting competition.
April 24, 2019: My painting "YOU CAN'T SEE ME" was selected as part of the FAV15% (jury's favorite 15% of the entries) in the March 2019 BoldBrush Painting competition.
June 29, 2019: My painting "YOU CAN'T SEE ME" was selected again as part of the FAV15% (jury's favorite 15% of the entries) in the June 2019 BoldBrush Painting competition.
