Projects/Exhibitions
Botanical painting entitled “Flirting” selected for summer exhibit “The Language of Flowers”, Mills Pond Gallery, St James, New York, June 28-July 25th 2025
Artist’s Statement
A visit to the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco last year inspired illustrator Jackie Mallon to begin a series of watercolor botanicals, including Flirting, the painting you see here. Having grown up in rural Ireland, Jackie has always been moved by the vivid presence of flowers—the exotic and the everyday, the wild and the cultivated.
A former fashion designer, Jackie likes to explore the dynamic between line and color bouncing off a pure white background, recalling the high-fashion models on clean, white runways of her past. She aims to accurately depict each blossom while also reflecting the flowers’ personalities—even encouraging relationships between different varieties. The result is perhaps a slightly unconventional painting that presents the tulip, tiger lily, iris and flamingo flower almost as capricious, catwalking figures weaving past each other. Their language is the swish of a leaf, the tilt of a petal, and the flick of a stamen.
Commissioned by London designer James Walsh to create a watercolor artwork for the designer’s exhibit, The Diamond Babydoll, London, November 2024.
Prada activations, spring/summer 24, including creating watercolor gifts, foulard flowers on raffia totes, block printing on Japanese fans
Im my Prada Watercolor Atelier June 2024
Jury member Fida Illustration Awards November 2023
Fida/London Fashion Week, February 2022
Guest Critic
Invited by Fida Worldwide to critique the work of Fida members who were live sketching the shows during London Fashion Week.
Cellophane Extravaganza, Club Cumming, NYC, September 2021
Selected to exhibit four pieces at event to celebrate Club Cumming’s 4-year anniversary of their weekly Drink and Draw evening.
Exhibiting at Cellophane Extravaganza
Cellophane Extravaganza poster featuring my artwork
Fida Worldwide Talks July 2021
Member of panel discussing the role of illustration in Industrialism and its importance to the fashion industry
Artist in Process, Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania, April 2021
As featured Artist in Process I created five exclusive artworks representing the modern day Suffragette to present at the opening event for the museum’s New Century, New Woman. The exhibit which spotlit Charles Dana Gibson’s iconic pen-and-ink illustrations of society women from the 1890s, considered the epitome of American femininity and glamor at the time, also documented women’s struggle for equality at the turn of the twentieth century, offering up many parallels with today. During the event I also created a live illustration of a Vogue cover featuring a modern day Gibson Girl.
With actor Alan Cumming and my drawing of Alan Cumming
Artwork created of actor Alan Cumming at Cellophane Extravaganza
Poster featuring my artwork
Vogue cover of Modern Day Gibson Girl