Jacquie O'Neill Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom
Jacquie O’Neill is a contemporary artist working with landscape, memory, and material process. After 25 years as an illustrator, she now creates slower, nature-led work using acrylics, natural inks, and prepared surfaces such as bark and paper. Her practice weaves trees, land, and the emotional and symbolic experience of being in nature.
Jacquie O’Neill is a contemporary artist whose practice is rooted in direct engagement with landscape, material, and memory. After a 25-year career as an illustrator working to commercial briefs, her work has shifted towards a slower, more responsive studio practice grounded in time spent in the natural world.
Working between observation and intuition, she creates paintings on paper and prepared natural surfaces, including bark treated with traditional gesso. Her materials include acrylic paint and handmade inks derived from natural sources, reflecting an ongoing interest in how matter, surface, and place inform one another.
Trees, landforms, and shifting seasonal conditions are recurring points of reference, alongside quieter explorations of memory, mythology, and the feminine as a lived and symbolic presence within landscape. Rather than depicting specific locations, her work responds to the emotional and psychological experience of being in nature—its capacity to hold, reflect, and transform lived experience.
O’Neill is currently undertaking a year-long Studio Practice Programme at Newlyn School of Art, building on her recent studio-based research into landscape, material process, and embodied ways of seeing.
