Jamie was born and raised in Parry Sound, Ontario in a creative and entrepreneurial family. This strongly influenced and helped shape her artistic style. As a child, Jamie would watch her mother for hours as she painted at their kitchen table, captivated by how her mom knew what colours to mix together, where to place each brushstroke, and how scenes seemed to magically come together. This was all Jamie needed to try her hand at painting. She was hooked!
In terms of her artistic style, realism has always been her go-to. Over the years, however, she’s tweaked her style to be less traditional and more modern. Colours in her paintings do not transition gradually; each ends abruptly, much like the behaviour of pixels in digital images. When vi
