About
Jaimie is a lens based interdisciplinary artist. Her work is rooted in place in a spiritual way within the natural world. She explores different themes but the ideas throughout are connection to the universal through nostalgic appeal to a place. There is a comforting solidarity and peaceful longing about the past and a photograph is already in the past. Currently exploring digital with edited and some composited images, she prints the images on archival papers, then further manipulates with hand-coloring, painting, and sometimes encaustics. The results are often described as ethereal.
Jaimie has a long use photography of traditional film and silver gelatin, Cyanotype, Van Dyke, Photograms, photo manipulations, infrared, and other alternative processes. As a fine art major, she began exploring hand tinting, coloring, and painting of photographs with oils, pencils, and water based media while at the university. She used 35 mm, 2 1/4 x 21/4, and toy cameras.
Her work is archival; made with materials for longevity. She has been in many galleries, press, and venues. Pieces are in private, public, and corporate collections.
Where Land Meets Sea
Rushing onto the land, then retreating back into the sea, tides are at once
both constant and ever-changing. The water shapes the shorelines into a
surprising and beautiful place of discovery. As a Thalassophile, a lover of
the sea: I long for the eternally rhythmic and mesmerizing sounds at the
water’s edge and draw healing strength from their energy.
Wandering the beaches, berms, and beyond, I search for revelations in the
natural shorelines. I find relationships between the depth of the sea and our deep inner
beliefs. Focusing on natural environments, looking for mystery, I am creating
the visualization of my dreams.
In order to better convey the mystical, I print my images on archival hot
press natural and Japanese papers. I embellish with hand-colored oil
pencils, pan and stick dry pastels, and other media. In building layers of
color, I try to reflect the deep and ageless stirrings of the sea.
Color of Light
There is a mesmerization in gazing at the light on the sea. This series doesn’t record the reality as captured by the camera, but combines image and imagination. It is a study of the light and the color of light. Composite photos are blends of reality and imagined dreams. I preserve the colors of light at different times of day and season. Printed on archival paper in limited editions, I further manipulate the vision by hand-coloring with oil pencils and pastels to create personal visual poetry.
Big Skies and Water Dreams
Perhaps because my father had a passion for sailing, I became a Thalassophile. I’m drawn to the seas; the sounds, smells, and sights. I love the things of the sea; the boats, fisherman’s shacks and stages, lighthouses, and the dunes and rocks of the shoreline. During the pandemic, I longed to travel so I created imagery from my dreams. Using the skies from my favorite mountain places in Montana along with my ocean images from the Maritime Provinces I made my fantasy images to soothe my soul. After finishing the composite I printed the image and attached it to a birch substrate. Next I added layers of pigments and wax and fused with heat and fire. I use a variety of pigments which include oil paints, watercolor, egg tempera, inks, pencils, and pastels. The luminosity of the beeswax adds a soft mellow dream-like appearance. Each image is in a limited edition of 15 in two sizes.
Recent Exhibitions:
2021
Solo Show
A Smith Gallery
2024
Portals and Passages Modern Visual Art Gallery Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Sanctuary Asmith Gallery Johnson City, Texas
Resolutions Visual Art Society of Bryan/College Station and Arts Council of College Station
2023
10 x 10 Midwest Center For Photography Witchita, Kansas
Water PhotoPlace Gallery Middlebury, Vermont
Noctural Decode Gallery Tucson, Arizona
National Photo Show Lincoln Gallery Loveland, Colorado
StoryTelling Las Laguna Art Gallery Laguna Beach, California
Members Exhibition Visual Art Society of Bryan/College Station, Texas
Landscapes Light Space Time Gallery
International Juried Exhibition Center For Contemporary Arts Abilene,Texas
Landscapes A Smith Gallery Johnson City, Texas
Southern Landscapes South by Southeast Molena, Georgia
50th Anniversary Exhibition Visual Art Society of Bryan/College Station, Texas
Plant Life Midwest Center For Photography Wichita, Kansas
Members Exhibition Praxis Gallery Minneapolis, Minnesota
Art For the People Gallery, Austin, Texas
2022
Featured Artist Solo Showcase
Light Space Time December 2022
Portfolio Platform
Featured Artist Portfolio for December 2022
Midwest Center for PhotographyWinter Solstice 2022 Griffin Museum of Photography
Botanical A Smith Gallery
Far Away Places Las Legunas Gallery
Black and White South x Southeast Gallery
Story A Smith Gallery
Vantage Point Griffin Museum of Photography at Lafayette City Center
Botanical The SE Center for Photography
Galveston Art League Juried Show
Forgotten The SE Center for Photography
Wait Gain Exhibition Dab Art company Los Angeles
Botanical PhotoPlace Gallery
Still Life Praxis Gallery
Affair D’Art Gallery
2021
Winter Solstice 2021 Griffin Museum of Photography
Midwest Center for Photography Ten x Ten
The Hand Magazine
Landscapes Praxis Gallery
South Coast and Big Skies and Water Dreams Studio C Gallery
Alternative A Smith Gallery
Motion The SE Center for Photography
Dimensions XLVIII Art Center of Corpus Christi
Group Exhibition Art of War Bryan, Texas
Water A Smith Gallery
Portals The SE Center for Photography
Out There Midwest Center For Photography
Texas Photographic Society Members Show
Solo Show Big Skies and Water Dreams A Smith Gallery
Botanical A Smith Gallery
Big Show Lawndale Art and Performance Center
Published article in Antidote, Maine Museum of Photographic Arts
Black and White Exhibition A Smith Gallery
Published in The Hand Magazine
Honorable Mention Texas City Art Festival
Your Daily Photograph YourDailyPhotograh.com
2020
Trees Exhibition A Smith Gallery
Light Exhibition A Smith Gallery
Vistas Exhibition A Smith Gallery
Color Exhibition Center For Photography
Domicile Exhibition A Smith Gallery
Published in The Hand Magazine
Listening to the Land Texas Photographic Society
Water A Smith Gallery
2019
Portals A Smith Gallery
2018
Galveston Art League
Texas City Art League
Published in The Hand
2017
Unique A Smith Gallery
Vistas A Smith Gallery
2016
National Juried Encaustic Exhibition
2014
Continental Drift Group Exhibition FotoFest
Houston Photographic Society Fotofest
2011
Art Crawl Houston
2009
Open Door Series Juried Exhibition Art Alliance Richmond,TX
Beyond Violet Fill Your Cup Coffee Shoppe, Richmond, TX
2008
Open Door Series Juried Exhibition Art Alliance Richmond, TX
Water Juried Exhibition Art Alliance Richmond, TX
Color of White Sand Fill Your Cup Coffee Shoppe Richmond, TX
Birds of Oystershell Island Fill Your Cup Coffee Shoppe Richmond, TX
2007
Salute to Houston Firefighters Exhibition Houston, TX
2006
Continental Airlines Exhibition Houston, TX