HOK #21: Jessie Parker

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Meet ?Jessie Parker.

“Ashcroft has been kind enough to lend us this space – first floor of the condo tower on Richmond near Island Park – to use as a gallery for the rest of this month. After that it’s being turned into shops.

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We have four local artists in here, including myself. Two of us are quite experienced and there are two beginners.

I started using Photoshop and digital photography to create my art in the early nineties as that all was just starting to take off. I love digital photography because I am allergic to the fixer – the chemical that you have to use to develop film. I started out painting, but I was allergic to the turpentine too. Now I start with a digital picture and use Photoshop to add layers and manipulate the image to whatever I can imagine.

We’re here until the end of September, selling art. And we are donating a percentage of all the sales to the Ottawa Hospital.”

Collected by Ted Simpson.

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