Jackie Brice, a native Floridian,
is an award winning professional artist who has been painting
since 1967.
She was one of seven Florida artists in 1991 to
be invited by the State of Florida to participate in the exhibit,
"Moods of Florida" in the main gallery of the State
Capitol Building and in 1993, was invited to have a one woman
show at the Capitol during the legislative session. In 1997 her
work was displayed in a one woman exhibit in the Rotunda of the
Richard B. Russell Senate Building in Washington, D.C. As a result,
her portfolio has been accepted into the archives of the National
Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.
She studied for eleven years with her mentor and
friend, A. E. "Beanie" Backus. Believing strongly that
the greatest teaching tool for a landscape artist is painting
outdoors, she has used this practice to capture the essence of
Florida. This quote from A. E. Backus states: "Jackie Brice
is in my opinion a very talented painter. She has a love of Florida
landscape and her mastery of her medium enables her to impart
this love." April, 1985.
During its 75th Birthday Celebration, the Town of
Jupiter, Florida chose one of Brice's paintings of the Loxahatchee
River for the cover of the second printing of "The Loxahatchee
Lament". The Martin County Council for the Arts invited Ms.
Brice to write the text on the "Backus Colors" for the
book, A.E. Backus, The Backus School. It was published in 2000.
In 2002 she was one of five artists in Florida chosen to design
a Christmas ornament to hang on the Christmas tree in the Blue Room
of the White House.
