Jackie’s work pushes us to consider our legacy. What do we really leave behind? What will remain to be unearthed by our successors? Jackie explores these questions in her large scale contemporary work.

Jackie Ranney is a contemporary artist based in Hull, Massachusetts. Jackie’s primary medium is marine debris that she cleans off Massachusetts beaches and as travels including Europe. Drawing on her background in archaeology, she embeds into old plaster and paint these sad artifacts of our age.

Inspired by her sense of place in the world, Jackie creates work that infuses a space with peace, expansiveness, and interest. Her colors, and compositions are soothing with color pops, patterns, and shapes that are influenced by the elements, the sea, sky, and surrounding nature. The beach trash and marine debris that she works with includes fishing rope, balloons, bottle caps, buoys, plastic packaging, lobster traps, and much more.

Her passion for the wild natural world and our ancient human roots paired with her environmental activism harmoniously merge in each painting she creates. Through her work, Jackie draws attention to our modern problem of plastic pollution while creating masterful works of art that will stand the test of time.