Jacqueline Saporiti was born in 1949 in Saigon, Viet Nam to Vietnamese French parents and was raised bilingual, enriched by two cultures. In 1968 after obtaining a Baccalaureate in Classics, Jacqueline was offered an academic scholarship to attend Elizabethtown College, PA majoring in German and Psychology. She continued her liberal arts studies at Boston University and art classes quickly became an important part of the curriculum as she gained the technical experience in drawing, illustration, painting in oils and watercolor, and the different methods of printmaking with a strong preference to zinc plate etching.

Art remained an active part of her life as she worked for Berlitz as a teacher and a translator. Jacqueline continued to study art and design and supplemented her income in custom fashion confection. She has exhibited and sold her work through private and public shows as well as galleries since 1994. Using acrylics as a foundation, Jacqueline works in oils on a variety of different surfaces, using palette knives, brushes, fingers, spraying and blotting to achieve the desired depth of a multi layered effect. Subjects are random, a vehicle to express her feelings rather than the obvious object. Jacqueline views colors as splendors afforded by nature and enjoys all the values of each of her palettes which are also expressions of feelings rather than the physical reality.

Galleries:
Barrie Holt, New Orleans, LA
Capital Mortgage, Santa Fe, NM
Midtown Gallery and Framers, Nashville, TN
Willis Gray, Decatur, AL

Private Collections:
N. Chevallier, Montpellier, France
Delta Mortgage, Santa Fe, NM