Hello, again- I am MarrowMaker, the Painter that dwells in this corner of the internet. Out in the real world I am Kirstie Jackman, a 33-year-old artist based in Michigan, living with her husband and cat. Online, I have gone by Marrow for nearly 15 years, so the transition into my official brand of MarrowMaker LLC was an easy one. The act of “making” has absolutely enveloped my entire life. From a very young age my primary focus was art, with an emphasis on drawing alongside writing and music.

 I briefly attended two colleges in Ohio (where I was raised) in pursuit of Illustration and Studio Arts. Immediately after this I unfortunately allowed adulthood to overshadow my real work and placed creation on the back-burner, sometimes even lying dormant. The true turning point for me was the picking up of a paint-brush as a real job. This was in 2016- it was just a side job, and just a wine-and-paint studio but it was the first time since college I was forced to sit down with my acrylics and actually face some creative demons. I had assignments, and taught lessons but the main value lied simply in forcing me to start. Through the plethora of paintings I hated- I found the ones that made my soul light up. I found what I needed.

My foundation was built on Realism and colored pencil, which bred an obsessive need to create accuracy and stress. Slowly, I’ve evolved and learned the freedom of molding your own images, rather than copying that of an existing one. This paired with the fact that I was already a writer, and adored making and describing new worlds and scenes- allowed my illustrative roots to light up and actually add imagination to a landscape. The style of my Worlds has slowly evolved over the last nine years, originally stemming from an almost hollow, black and white silhouette of a misty woods, to the detailed forests that I create today.