Jaqueline Boberg

Jaqueline rediscovers the past in new forms through her art. She reaches back as if in a time machine. She layers papers found and created, lose them again in coats of paint, only to rediscover them anew through excavation. To her, it concretizes echoes of the past by having them be born anew without the limitations of memory. She is rarely content with her ability to master any one medium and wants to surround herself with all tools at a painter’s disposal. Jaqueline goes through phases: watercolor, pastel, oil, acrylic and mixed media – always returning to a medium to push it in new directions.

Jaqueline has found that in the pursuit of abstraction, mixed media is becoming her go to process. She can cut, tear, glue and rip a piece into chaos and then rescue it from the brink of death. Since turning 60 and seeing a forever-shortened canvass of life, this process has liberated her to explore new areas of herself as an artist with the child-like notion of exploration and the maturity to understand that free will is discipline.

In 2016, Jacqueline was diagnosed with breast cancer and felt extremely supported by a local non-profit organization called Cancer CAREpoint. Their kindness made her determined and inspired to sell her work and donate the proceeds in aid of the organization as a gift to help extend the loving assistance to other cancer survivors.