Jackie Henshall (B.A. Fine Art Painting, Central College of Art and Design, London) exhibited for many years as a landscape painter in East Anglia, painting the salt marshes of Suffolk and Norfolk. Since moving to Wales she has become a digital and mixed media artist, using photography to gather the raw materials to paint with pixels and pastels, allowing her to create a unique range of affordable papercraft products. As well as exhibiting locally (most recently one woman shows at the National Botanic Garden of Wales, Aberglasney, and Waunifor), Jackie has set up "Small Beauties" a successful fine art and papercraft business. Operating from a renovated woolen mill in Carmarthenshire, she distributes her prints, cards and papercraft products to many galleries and shops throughout the UK.
Small Beauties was founded by Jackie Henshall. It designs and produces original, high quality designs, including 3D decoupage, teabag folding sheets, backing papers, card toppers and borders, craft kits, greetings cards, fine art prints and other related products. We sell via craft retailers, garden centres, gift shops, galleries and shops specialising in art and craft materials.
For many years Jackie immersed herself in painting landscapes believing that nature was more surprising and original in its arrangements than anything she might create. Now, as she turns her eye inwards she feels the hours she spent painting outdoors, under her fisherman's umbrella, to be the best training she could have received and a great resource to now draw upon.
"I see myself today as a kind of visual storyteller for the inner life, spinning natural forms together to describe some of the subtle processes involved in a human's journey towards self knowledge. It's an impossible task but quite thrilling just to try. Although we each have our individual paths to follow, I believe that the patterns for the unfolding and creation of one's true self are the same for us all and it is those patterns I want to explore and convey. "
