Nancy Jackson

I am originally from Southern Ontario, but my life path has led me across North America and provided me with opportunities to settle in or experience a number of unique environments along the way. I am most often inspired by my love of the horse and the landscape surrounding it.

As a child, growing up in the sixties, I was exposed to the equine art of the late great artist Orren Mixer and many other great western artists, through the art features in the Western Horseman magazine. I was so enamoured with the detail and technique of Mixer’s works I was drawn to dabble in equine and western art at an early age. Once bit by the art bug I branched off into other mediums and subjects. I have lived on a horse ranch in Alberta for many years now and this has offered me a unique knowledge of my domestic, wild and landscape subjects.

In 2012 I was selected to receive the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. In the past few years I have been given the opportunity to design book covers and to illustrate a children's book. When I was attending art shows I was selected by jury to the Calgary Stampede Western Art Auction, the Medicine River Art Show, Ponoka Stampede and several others but my other work obligations limit my availa...

BAS from York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
CMA, Alberta, Canada
CPA

Calgary Stampede, Maple Creek Cowboy Poetry & Western Art Show, Medicine Hills Art Festival, Red Deer Westerner Days and Calgary Art Market