David Jackson

Work samples

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Handmade with rose paint.
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About David

A Baltimore-based artist, David Jackson, creates unique paintings using pigments made from roses and other flowers. Their work combines natural materials with a creative, lighthearted approach. Using materials to experiment with color.

2020 ICA Baltimore documentation session Artist.
Creator of @Bmaartist on istagram. The official staff art instagram page of the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Sold work to Rebecca Hoffberger, Director of the American Visionary Art Museum

S/S 1991

Experimenting with custom flower paints.

2020 Digital Butterfly

Vector butterfly. 2020 Illustrator edit
Rose dye Butterfly Print

Custom rose dyed rice paper.
Process. Paper tests
Process. Cooking
Process. Straining
Custom butterfly 1
Custom butterfly 2
Piranha

Custom paint.
Peacock Spider

Custom flower Paint
Rose Shark

2020 Rose dyed paper with custom rose shark

Portrait

Gouache on paper. Marker, highlighter, white out and pencil on paper. Gold leaf details.

The Golden Pillow

2020 BADAS documentation session with Institution of Contemporary Arts
Sport

Gouache on paper with gold leaf.
Olivia
Untitled

Marker on paper.
Sketchbook

2020 Sumi ink on toned paper.
Alice

While working for Disney, giving out wheelchairs. A man saw me drawing this and offered me my first gallery show.

Nostalgia

This series was made while working security at the American Visionary Art Museum. After my employment I sold a work to the director of the museum Rebecca Hoffberger.

Lucky Tree

2018 Colored pencil on toned paper
90s

Monkey fists and puffer jackets were stained in my head from the 90s
Storm

Colored pencil on toned paper.
Swamp

This is a distorted memory of the fireflies I saw while living in Florida.