Jacqueline Gaines is an artist and iPhoneographer also going by the moniker of JQ. Gaines worked for a long time as a traditional artist with a specific interest in drawing and design, but was forced to give her profession up for a time because of other pressing life commitments. However, since she started using her iDevices, she managed to find a proper space to cultivate her love for mobile photography.
“My formal art education and work experience is in drawing, book arts and textiles. So my studio is wrought with lots of traditional tools of the trade: handmade papers, pastes, brushes, radiograph pens, pencils, inks, etc.” Even though she’s now in love with her mobile apparatus, Jacqueline is at heart a crafty artist and still very fond of media of the most disparate kinds to create new things. As she explains, “I love working with my hands. I make hand bound books, I spin my own silk and cotton threads, using hand spindles and charkhas (Indian spinning wheel), I design and create textiles using traditional bobbin lacemaking (off-loom weaving) techniques… and I draw, using old fashioned radiograph pens.” Continue reading “iPhoneographers In Front Of The Lens #6 – Jacqueline Gaines”