As we travel through 2006, I continue to explore how to combine freedom of right brain spontaneous expression with the left brain, pre-planned structure of calligraphy. My subject matter continues to involve ideas, situations, and/or causes with which I am engaged. I delight in the possibilities inherent in mixing different media. My most recent works play with abstractions of imagery juxtaposed with ambiguously charged words .

 

Jacqueline Hand Lacey was born in New York City. She grew up as a Brooklyn Dodgers’ fan, and received her B.A. from Earlham college, a Quaker school in Indiana. These two facts alone help to explain her affinity for underdogs, nice guys, bleeding heart liberal causes and the San Diego Padres. As the single mother of 2 boys - now men – she also feels she was able to closely experience and examine every conceivable emotion known to humankind, thereby enabling her to have great artistic reservoirs from which to draw (or paint!).

She has been involved with the arts and a myriad of crafts all her life  - knitting, crocheting, sewing, painting, welding, fabric arts, weaving, beading and quilting. Having amassed an overabundance of supplies with each of these endeavors, when Jacqueline saw a 6-week calligraphy class offered at a local community college in 1987, she was intrigued with the idea of studying an art form that seemed to require only a piece of paper, a pen and a bottle of ink! (yeah, right! See “overabundance” above!)

Fascinated by the power of words and the emotional responses they provoke, she utilizes words as an integral element of her designs. Intrigued by abstract and expressionist art, with her varied artistic experiences, and the afore-mentioned overabundance of supplies, it is no surprise that she combines a variety of media in her current creations.

Her work has been exhibited in a number of different venues in southern California* (including the Escondido Municipal Gallery where “Vagaries” won a first place). She has served on the Boards of the San Diego Fellow Calligraphers (SDFC), and the San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild. Her art work has been featured in EXPRESSION Magazine, July/August 2002, “Diamonds in the Rough _ The Art of Jacqueline Lacey,” pp. 98-104; and November/December 2003, “The Odyssey of Jackie,” pp. 54-57.

* Escondido Municipal Gallery, 101 Artists Colony, Encinitas; San Diego County Fair (2001-2005); Plaza Pen & Art, Fountain Valley; Brand Library, Glendale; Poway Center for the Performing Arts, Cardiff-by-the Sea library, Solana Beach Library, Grand Galleria in Escondido.