Jackie Gardener
Paper Collage & Assemblage
I create intricate visual works by gluing decorative and patterned papers to wood slabs, hand built tiny homes and random furniture pieces & then add collected, odd collage alts to create a visual story.
Directions to Studio #5 at 35385 Fly Cloud Road, The Sea Ranch: From Hwy 1, turn inland on Annapolis Road, then right onto Fly Cloud Road, the first intersection. Continue 0.3 miles. 35385 is on the left.
Studio Tour Hours:
Open Aug. 29-30 and Sept. 5-7
11 am to 5 pm
My studio is also open by appointment, year-round.
Jackie Gardener has explored many art forms over her long career, but always comes back to paper. More than 35 years ago, Jackie took a weekend class from Stockton book artist Kathy Crump, who made her own papers from her garden plants, and there the seed was planted for a long and heartfelt interest in paper.
Jackie creates many of her own papers with paint and solvent, like paste papers and marbling. She coaxes and coerces them into tight collages that tell her stories through color and embellishment, often incorporating wordplay into the design.
Her schooling brought her degrees in art as well as interior design, which gave her a long and varied career. Jackie’s focus has expanded into assemblage with found materials. She incorporates origami, weaving, bookmaking and wrapping into new forms through gluing – to walls, floors and even doors, bread boxes and tables, but primarily on redwood slabs and wood panels.
In recent years, she has explored house forms. She wraps and glues with her vision in mind with a family of paste papers, hand marbled specimens and manipulated magazine photos as well as commercial papers from the far reaches of the world. Each one communicates a mood or concept with words and color intended to provoke thought and humor. Comve visit her studio and explore her world.