Jackie Hamilton, Artist, 68

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Jackie Hamilton, an award-winning watercolor artist who worked out of a
studio at the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, Virginia, for
the past 15 years, died of emphysema March 25, 2005, at Southern
Maryland Hospital Center in Clinton, Maryland, at the age of 68.

Mrs. Hamilton, who lived in Clinton, was a homemaker and substitute
teacher when she started taking art classes at the Torpedo Factory in
the late 1970s. Later, she studied watercolor painting in workshops
across the country and in England with established artists, including
modern impressionist painter Don Stone of Maine.

Over the years, she produced different-sized paintings of architectural
structures, rural landscapes, still lifes and flowers that were said to
be reminiscent of the works of Andrew Wyeth and Edward Hopper. She also
made her own greeting cards with original art and produced "whiskey
paintings," small watercolor works framed in one-inch mats.

Her works were featured in private and public exhibitions, including
shows at Gallery West in Alexandria.

She participated in juried shows in the Washington DC area, Baltimore,
Maryland, New York and Colorado. In 1996, she won the Silver Medal in
the Mid-Atlantic Regional Watercolor Exhibition.

Mrs. Hamilton, who lived in the Washington area for 41 years, was born
in Charleston, West Virginia. She graduated from Stephens College in
Missouri and attended Marshall University in Charleston.

She was an active member of Clinton United Methodist Church, serving on
several committees and heading its annual bazaar.

Survivors include her husband of 47 years, Howard N. Hamilton of
Clinton; four children, Douglas Bruce Hamilton of Waldorf, Maryland,
Mark Hamilton of Catonsville, Maryland, Holly Hamilton of Columbia,
Marylanmd, and Tracey Hamilton of Waldorf; and seven grandchildren.

Washington Post