About Jacqueline Agius
Jacqueline Agius is an artist specialising in watercolour painting. As a child growing up in a creative family art was never a difficult task. She was highly influenced by her talented artistic father, Edwin Conti and cultivated a passion for architecture and a love for drawing and painting. Her first formal artistic education began when she studied art at St Joseph School, Blata l-Bajda. Later she followed courses at the School of Art in Valletta. Jacqueline's paintings developed as the years went by. However preferring watercolours she painted away at buildings, seascapes and landscapes, reflecting her everyday life and surroundings at the time. Upon the birth of her two sons, her creativity took the shape of murals in the children's bedrooms. It was only many years later that with the help of a couple of established artists she discovered that finding new ways of expressing herself through painting was very exciting indeed. Through all these years she knew there was in her heart the growing desire to someday become an artist. That, fueled by encouragement from family, mentors and friends eventually found its way in 2007. From then on she intensely taught herself to be fluent in watercolour. She embarked on a professional artist career and started exhibiting publicly. Jacqueline has participated in many collective shows in Malta and Gozo. She loves the landscape with its wide open spaces, the glittering sea and particularly the warm stone buildings standing proud against the skyline. Her works don't only capture recognisable landmarks, they capture the light, colour and forms of the locations whilst offering personal interpretations of those places. Her watercolours can be found in private and corporate collections both locally and abroad. Jacqueline lives in Attard with her husband and sons.