137 King Street, St. Augustine, FL.
904-825-4577, info@butterfieldgarage.com
September's Artist of the Month:
Heather Jackson
"I am a (mostly) self-taught improvisational abstract painter, collage artist, and beadworker, recently relocated to St. Augustine with my family from Oregon. I work full-time as a professional cartographer, but have always had a creative “side hustle” to counterbalance my technical work.
My paintings and jewelry are informed by play, reckless experimentation, and what I’ve learned from other fabulous artists and teachers. I’m lit up by bold, colorful, whimsy, and want my work to feel like a fun road trip or a nostalgic visit to a favorite childhood memory, like a seaside carnival or circus.
My preferred mediums are acrylic, spray paint, and paper — and, more recently, glass beads, gemstones, and shells. Downsizing to a smaller place meant trading studio square footage for a lapful of seed beads, and it turns out I can paint with those too: same color instincts, same reckless experimentation - just small enough to wear!"
City of Roses - Heather Jackson
"City of Roses is a love song to my old city, Portland, Oregon.
I work as a cartographer. Every day I translate places into legible systems — coordinates, boundaries, symbols with fixed meanings. But this is not how we remember the places we love.
These collaged paintings are built the way a map is built: in layers, in overlays, from above. But the information keeps going soft. Boundaries are torn rather than drawn. An X marks a location I can no longer name. A legend appears with no key. Handwriting surfaces reversed and unreadable, the way a street you walked daily becomes a feeling instead of a route.
What survives isn’t the survey. It’s the bridges stacked over the Willamette. Chickens in a side yard. Brass hitching rings still set into old curbs. In my paintings, I map places as memory keeps them, not as they are.”
Heather will be Butterfield's Artist Of The Month for all of September, but she will be premiering much new work and giving a presentation on First Friday, Sep. 4th. at 6p.m. The gallery is open from 11a.m. to 5p.m every day, but will be open 'til 9p.m. for First Friday. Please come and say hello!
Stop in and see what's new and don't forget to pick up a Shuttle Sticker for complimentary shuttle service to St. Augustine galleries between 6-9 pm on the night of the Gallery Walk.
BUTTERFIELD GARAGE
Butterfield Garage Art Gallery is a leader in the presentation of traditional and contemporary visual arts and fine crafts. As an artist-run gallery, we encourage the experience of direct accessibility and dialogue between artists, patrons and our community within Northeast Florida.
Opening: First Friday Artwalk - December 5th., 5:00 - 9:00 pm
See you at the Garage!
About Butterfield Garage Art Gallery
Established in February 1999, Butterfield Garage Art Gallery is the brainchild of artist Jan Miller. Her vision was to create an artist-run gallery for professional artists that would encourage creative experimentation. Miller brought with her the experience of over 40 years as a successful professional artist. Having been a former member of ARC Cooperative in Chicago, Jan wanted to create a similar collective here in her new home. Her plan was to bring together the best artists in the area, who would share expenses, management, and operation of the gallery. The gallery opened its doors in February 1999.
For 25 years now, the Butterfield Garage Art Gallery has provided its artists with the chance to grow and take advantage of opportunities that may come their way through exposure in a professional gallery. And we continue to this day, true to the gallery’s original mission: to be a leader in the presentation of traditional and contemporary visual arts in Northeast Florida, and to encourage the experience of direct accessibility and dialogue between artists and their customers.
