Jacquie Myrtle is based in her home town, Holyhead, to which she returned after training at Chelsea School of Art. She began her art career as a successful watercolourist with a natural ability and talent for graphic wild-life paintings.

Over the past few years Jacquie has been moving more into working with various art mediums; including, fabrics, sculpture, collage and music. This was reflected in her most recent exhibition: 'The Letters'. The collection was a moving and atmospheric tribute to some of the more poignant aspects of her personal and family history, such as a series of letters written to her grandmother from the Somme during the First World War. The music played in the exhibition room to accompany the works was specially composed by Alan Slinn.

Jacquie's family and their stories are an important source of inspiration. ' The Sentinel ', a painting which appears in every exhibition, acting as a kind of guardian, was painted from an old photograph taken by her grandfather.

The extent to which Jacquie has moved away from concentrating on her more traditional, detailed watercolour and gouache paintings is illustrated by her completion last year of a bold plaster figurehead commissioned for the opening of Treaddur Bay Sailing Club. She is currently working on a 3D image of a drowning woman, based on Ophelia.

Until December of last year, Jacquie was running her own gallery, 'Seren', in Stanley Crescent, Holyhead, from where she taught and facilitated both children's and adult's art workshops. Her regular classes for adults are now based at her house and at the Ucheldre Centre and she will once again be providing her popular children's workshops in the summer; this time in a local community centre.

As well as exhibiting at the Ucheldre Centre, Jacquie has had several exhibitions at Holyhead library and has also exhibited at Oriel Bangor, the Beaumaris Art Festival, Llys LLewellyn Heritage Centre and Oriel Caernarfon. Commissioned paintings have been completed for patrons living all over the world: India, Brazil, Australia, Tasmania and Spain.