I really never have felt like a bonafide artist, just a girl with a passion to create with whatever I have on hand.

I have had the pleasure of winning art lessons over the years and taken high school-level art, but really, life has shaped me.

My father painted houses and when I was old enough he had me scraping those colors together. Sitting in that shed surrounded by pots of paint is how I learned what colors I could blend together.

But it was my mother who truly inspired me. She started painting beautiful pictures when she became a senior. I was amazed and became hooked on art. I aspire to be just like her: warm and loving and talented.

I have won many ribbons at the Buckhorn art shows and had the pleasure of painting many commissioned pieces of art, many of them house portraits.

My art is simple, as I wish my life to be. Colorful, for the universe has supplied us with so many hues, and, as realistic as I can paint it without my art looking like a photograph.

I suppose simplistic realism is what I would call my style, and try as I might, can do no other.

Bio

Elizabeth (Betty) Jackson has seen a few communities.  Born in the Netherlands, she and her husband moved from London, Ontario to North Kawartha after a wrong turn in the dark while honeymooning landed them in Glen Alda.

They later went to Newfoundland on a whim and fell in love with the island. They now divide their time between their two favourite communities.