About the Artist


Blair Jackson is a Northern Virginia native, born at Fort Belvoir, and has lived her life in the Washington area. She has art degrees from Florida State University and Parsons School of Design/Banks Street in NYC. She attended Parsons in Paris, Alexandria Art League, and numerous art & photo workshops. Blair taught Graphic Design in Arlington, VA, and Colored Pencil Drawing at the Torpedo Factory. She and her husband operate an exhibit design and fabrication studio, Blair Inc.

Blair is a member of F11 Women’s Photo Collaborative, the Alexandria Art League, The Arts Club of Washington, Soho House, & is founder & president of the Metropolitan Washington Colored Pencil Society.

Blair exhibits, regularly, in both Photography & Colored Pencil in DC/MD/VA. Solo exhibits have included The Arts Club of Washington, NIH, Martha Jefferson Clinic, Artomatic, Hotcakes in Charlottesville, and Glamourama in Georgetown. Her work has also been shown in group exhibitions aroundthe country. She was a featured artist in both Elan and To The Point magazines.

Blair Jackson’s photographs are straight forward and direct. They are uncluttered and orderly compositions, closely cropped, with a sense of quiet reserve, and possible uncertainty.