About Me
Hi! I’m Jackie Chatham Halcomb, J.C. Halcomb for short, and I’m a lover of the fine arts as well as a fine artist myself. I enjoy making things… friends, deals, dinner for my husband Dave and our seven year old daughter Aaris, Play-Doh trees and Lego castles, cookies (when someone deserves a special treat)… music, poetry and children’s books... the list goes on and on. But at the very top of my “what I love to make” list is paintings! So after nearly 10 years of working in commercial real estate in the Nashville/Franklin Tennessee area, I jumped off the corporate ladder and landed in my happiest place on earth… my home art studio, stocked with colorful paint, canvas, brushes and palette knives, located in downtown Lexington, Kentucky.
As a contemporary artist, my work ranges from total abstraction to semi-representational and contains themes that are inspirational in nature. I paint using acrylic paint as well as mixed media applications. My process contrasts between using thick paint applied with palette knives to create texture and applying many thin layers of color washes and glazes.
My inspiration to paint comes from the natural world as well as the supernatural; what can be seen, as well as the greater truth that what can’t be seen is most relevant. Among these are the unique gifts we have all been given at birth. And for me, that gift is the ability to create something that might bring happiness to the hearts and a little added joy to the homes of others. I believe that art is a living thing, an extension and expression of life. It is my hope that my pieces will live on long after me serving as a beacon of light; the same light from which I was created and the very same light that works through me allowing me the favor of recreating what has already been so perfectly created.
Thank you for stopping by my site. And, be sure to check back often to see all of my recent creations.
My inspiration to paint comes from the natural world as well as the supernatural; what can be seen, as well as the greater truth that what can’t be seen is most relevant. Among these are the unique gifts we have all been given at birth. And for me, that gift is the ability to create something that might bring happiness to the hearts and a little added joy to the homes of others. I believe that art is a living thing, an extension and expression of life. It is my hope that my pieces will live on long after me serving as a beacon of light; the same light from which I was created and the very same light that works through me allowing me the favor of recreating what has already been so perfectly created.
Thank you for stopping by my site. And, be sure to check back often to see all of my recent creations.