- GUILD TEACHER -
Corner Brook, NL
Honing self-taught skills through window painting for 33 years, Jackie Alcock, a self-proclaimed dabbler who lives in the gray area between fine art and fine craft, received a Bachelor in Fine Arts in 2008.
Soon after, her affair with rug hooking began and she has hooked more than 135 mats, beginning with a codfish, under the tutelage of Beverley Neville, for her project ‘The Newfoundland Buffet Table’.
As a Newfoundland and Labrador Artist, Jackie has and continues to have many accomplishments:
In 2012, Rug Hooking Magazine published Jackie’s ‘The Change”
In 2016, Flanker Press published “Colouring the Rock with Jackie” a colouring book for adults. She is now compiling the artwork she made over the last three decades and has just finished book 10.
In 2017 Jackie digitally created a 48 poster timeline for the troops killed in the “Afghanistan Conflict”
Between 2014 and 2018 Jackie committed her heart and soul to complete her “Forget-Me-Not Project” of which 6 pieces are hooked rugs.
Rug Hooking Magazine published the piece in the Nov/Dec 2018 issue
2019 has been a banner year for Jackie.
She completed a large series of murals for the Corner Brook Plaza;
She was named one of the Hooked Rug Artist of the Year for the Hooked Rug Museum of North America;
She created/painted the Public Piano for the Deer Lake Airport through the Business and Arts NL Public Piano Project;
She’s been nominated as one of 52 Finalists for the renowned Salt Island Art Show in British Columbia, winner to be announced in October of 2019;
She completed her Teacher Training Certification with the Rug Hooking Guild of Newfoundland and Labrador; and,
The year is not over!
Jackie has also had success in selling her rugs, including two purchased by The Rooms.
To view all of Jackie’s work, please visit her website.
(709) 634-6776
artbyjackie@live.com
www.jackiealcock.ca
• Rug Hooking Guild of Newfoundland and Labrador, Teacher Certification 2019
• Rug Hooking Guild of Nova Scotia
• LAWN, on the board of the League of Artist Wettest Newfoundland
• The Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador