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Jacqui Macumber of Inkah Art has been working with us since early this year, and for someone who has only really delved seriously into the art scene in the past year, she is certainly off to a great start. She currently comes into our Melbourne Office about once a week to sign her limited edition prints (printed on the popular Hahnemuhle PhotoRag), before we ship them out to her various clients – each one including a personal handwritten message.
Instead of just photographing her final original pieces, Jacqui photographs the work along the different stages of the process, recording the journey and in turn creating a series of beautiful limited edition prints.
Inkah Art has a strong following on Instagram, facebook and a fantastic website where you can purchase both her original works and limited edition prints.
Education and background:
I am a qualified
primary school teacher. Part of my teaching degree was an art subject
and creating an art folio which I absolutely loved. After teaching my
own grade for a couple of years I decided to casual relief teach, and
this meant I got to spend quite a lot of time in the art room teaching
art, which I loved far more than classroom teaching!
I then fell pregnant, and while pregnant spent a lot of time being creative and trying to come up with artwork for my daughter’s nursery and my own house as I absolutely love anything to do with interior design. I was really happy with what I was creating and received a positive response from family and friends who commissioned me to create pieces for them. I created an instagram account to share my artwork and it really just grew from there. A few months ago it got to the point where I felt I might actually be able to try and make a go of this and decided to officially become a registered business and launch my website! I would therefore consider myself to be a self-taught artist!
Where are you based?
Torquay, Victoria
How long have you been a visual artist for?
Officially, only about a year so I am very new on the art scene!
What do you feel is your biggest achievement to date?
Launching
my own website and having people buy my artwork! (I also have a couple
of really exciting things that will be happening and reveal themselves
in the next couple of months, but unfortunately I can’t share them at
this time!)
What are your creative influences?
I
love where I live and am often inspired by the beauty of the natural
environment. I love colour and see beauty everywhere that inspires me to
create something! I also just love interior design, and am inspired to
create beautiful artwork that works with interior spaces that I adore. I
usually start with a colour palette and the rest of the process that
evolves is very organic.
What are your favourite tools of the trade?
Acrylic paint, ink and liquitex gloss medium!
How have you found getting started with printing at Image Science?
Very
easy to deal with, more than happy to help someone who previously knew
nothing about how any of this worked! I knew what I wanted to achieve
but no idea how to make it happen but had literally a million questions
that were answered for me and was guided through how to make my plan a
reality. I’m very happy with the result!
How have your limited edition prints been influential to your business?
Having
my artwork produced as prints is an integral part of my creative
process. I photograph my artwork throughout it’s journey, not just the
finished product as I love the way each painting evolves and changes
along the way. Photographing my artwork progressively allows me to
capture the ever changing nature of my work, and I am then able to
create prints using these photographs which is amazing because the
prints that are of sections of an artwork don’t exist any more yet they
are beautiful and I wanted to be able to use them! Having prints allows
me to do this. I can create a series of beautiful images that originate
from the one artwork, and the original finished artwork is often quite
different from the print series I created – which I think makes it
really unique.
What’s next?
I would love to
expand my business into two other avenues at this stage – one being
greeting card design, and the other is something I am thoroughly excited
about and that is a cushion range. I am passionate about beautiful
homewares and it would be a dream of mine to turn my artwork into fabric
to produce my own cushions. I am exploring this possibility at the
moment and I hope it becomes a reality soon. I am looking to potentially
have my artwork stocked in retail stores in the future, and I’ve also
been working with an interior designer to provide artwork for their
clients.
Thanks so much for allowing us to feature your work Jacqui – it’s always a pleasure printing your stunning pieces!
Fine art reproduction prints are a great way of extending the reach of your art work.
We'd love to help you get started.
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Art Reproduction- Jen P -I just received my photo print. It looks just how I wanted it to! Thank you so much. You were so helpful and professional, and lovely to deal with. I have plenty more to have printed and will contact you again. Thanks so much again!