Sustainable Artist 

creating contemporary art from beach trash and marine debris

Motivated by her sense of place in the world, Jackie creates innovative work from marine debris that she transforms into contemporary coastal paintings.

As an artist residing in a coastal Massachusetts town, Jackie is inspired and compelled to combine her ocean activism into her work. 

“I enjoy the ocean immensely.  Every day that I walk her shores and gaze out upon the shifting tides and rolling waves, I feel deeply grateful and humble.  Removing plastics and the plethora of marine debris off beaches is my way of honoring the water and all the creatures whose home it is.”

Jackie cleans beaches across the State and collaborates with the Coastal Studies Center in Provincetown on large scale projects such as the Boston Harbor Islands Beach Clean that removed hundreds of tons of debris built up over decades.  She is then able to repurpose the trash into her ocean inspired contemporary paintings.  While her work stands alone as good art regardless of the medium used, each painting is an opportunity to highlight the problem of plastic pollution in the ocean.

Trash is not an easy medium.  Jackie challenges herself to work with even the most unlikely of materials so that as little debris as possible ends up in a landfill.  Because of this, no painting is alike and her style is able to shift and change in response to what she collects.  

Jackie’s paintings are statement pieces that bring joy and interest into a space while also promoting awareness about the difficulties our oceans are facing.  They challenge us all to rethink our personal consumption and they demonstrate the transformative ability of art.  

Jackie graduated from Walnut Hill School for the Arts and has a BA in anthropology and fine art from the American University of Paris.  She has been featured in multiple publications and galleries including South Shore Home, Life and Style Magazine, Gardner Colby Gallery Naples, Sarah Dasco Gallery Hingham, CBS news, The Boston Globe, The Patriot Ledger, Atelier Gallery SC, The National Art Gallery of Ireland, Artisans Gallery TX