BIOGRAPHY

Born: December 30, 1953, Springfield, Massachusetts


Chronology:

1969
Wins 2nd place and honorable mentions at the Longmeadow Art Show

1970
Receives honorable mention at Golden Globe Award, Boston, Mass.

1971
Receives 2nd prize at the Mystic Art Show

1973
Enters University of Massachusetts Art School (1 of 40 accepted out of 2,000 portfolio applicants)

1974
Runs a logging business while living in a two-room cabin in the New Hampshire woods.
There, she taught herself to paint in watercolor.

1979
Moves back to Springfield, Mass. area and studies watercolor with Walter Karnys.
Exhibits at the Garret Gallery, American International College.
Exhibits at the Zepher Gallery, Brattleboro, Vermont.
Exhibits at Metro Arts, Springfield, Mass.
Exhibits at the Longmeadow Country Club, Longmeadow, Mass.
Exhibits at the Cornell Gallery, Springfield, Mass.

1980
Travels throughout the state of Alaska and paints

1982
Travels throughout all of New England and completes many drawings.

1984
At the Urging of Phillip Lekki (nationally acclaimed pastel painter) Jamie returns to oil painting.

1985
Group show at the Backyard Gallery, Williamstown, Mass.
Group Show with Phillip Leki at Cooperstown, N.Y.
Featured in Yankee Magazine
Lectures at Stone Leight Burnham School, Deerfield, Mass.

1986
One-woman show at Bonduccit’s, Northampton, Mass.
One-woman show at Northampton Center for the Arts

1987
Show with Phillip Lekki at the Center for the Arts

1988
Group Show at the Chateau, Atlanta, Georgia

1989
Wins first place at the Longmeadow Art Show
Group show at the Hart Gallery, Northampton, Mass.
One-woman show at Sync Gallery, Northampton, Mass. Three paintings from this show went on tour through the American International College to China and were exhibited at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang and at Beijing University in Beijing.
Receives grants from the Massachusetts Arts Lottery in three cities which results in the “River Run” exhibit.
One-woman show at the Center for the Arts, Northampton, Mass.
One-woman show at the Wysteriahurst Museum, Holyoke, Mass.

1990
Wins second place at the Longmeadow Art Show
One-woman show at the Paige Estate, Longmeadow, Mass.
One-woman show at the American International College, Performing Arts Center.
One-woman show, Northampton Center for the Arts
On-woman show , Channing L. Bete Co., Deerfield, Mass.
Group show, Sync Gallery, Northampton, Mass.

1991
Exhibits at the Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Mass.

1996
The Highlands; Paintings and Pastels of the Berkshire Mountains, One-woman show, The Ralls Collection, Inc., Washington, DC

1997
Group Show, Gay Head Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard

1998
Air & Water, Group Show, The Ralls Collection, Inc., Washington, DC
Intimate Objects, Group Holiday Show, The Ralls Collection, Inc., Washington, DC
Three Artist Show, Springfield College, Springfield, MA
Hart Gallery, Northampton, MA

1999
Landscape Visage, Group Show, The Ralls Collection, Inc., Washington, DC
The Summer Show, The Ralls Collection, Inc., Washington, DC
Holyoke Community College
Gallerie 454, Grosse Point, MI

2000
Night and Day, Gallerie 454, Grosse Point, MI