The Second Dimension
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Jacquie Boyd studied illustration and graphic design at Newcastle and Lincolnshire College of Art and Design in the mid 80s and began her working life as a visualiser and illustrator in the advertising industry in London, Edinburgh and Newcastle learning invaluable lessons about working to tight deadlines, and how to draw quickly.
After the birth of her two sons in the early 90s she concentrated on developing her own children’s stories and freelance illustration work in greetings cards and editorial work for clients that included the National Garden Festival, The Royal Highland Show, ICI and the Royal Bank of Scotland.
She then spent ten years teaching Graphic Design and Illustration at Newcastle College of Art and Design, and began painting in 2002, finding immediate success with her iconic canvases in exhibitions in Newcastle.
Moving into her first studio in 2004 prompted her to leave full time teaching to concentrate on her personal fine art work alongside her more commercial work.
She has since enjoyed developing her style and fine art practice , high profile commercial advertising and editorial illustration work and part time teaching, and has had successful exhibitions in London and the north, including her critically acclaimed first solo show The Jack That Didn’t Fit in the Box at Customs House in South Shields in 2008. She is currently developing childrens’ characters and stories alongside her commercial and fine artwork.
Recent commercial clients include T3 magazine, Net-A-Porter, Ace Tennis Magazine and her fine art work sells in many select galleries across the country.
Jacquie’s styles are very much influenced by the working methods of her early career; her time in advertising was at the tail end of the era of magic markers, gouache and hand lettering. She flexibly moves from one hands-on traditional media to another, from oils to coloured pencil but loves simply to draw and to work in acrylics using those old school graphic techniques.
THE SECOND DIMENSION is a collection of Jacquie’s latest works in acrylics, a vibrant and exciting body of work influenced by the dramatically kitcsh drawing styles in retro teenage romance comics which she fuses with her comments on the superficiality of life in the 21st century, finding subject matter all around in our celebrity obsessed culture, a light hearted dig at the material girls of this world.
The exhibition will be a combination of large original artworks on canvas, and limited edition canvas prints.