Jimmi mccarter

Hendersonville, Tennessee

Jimmi was born in the beautiful small town of Sylacauga, Alabama where she lived until the age of 19, when she moved to Los Angeles to persue a career in music. She quickly joined the team of singers and dancers for the Dean Martin Show, The Golddiggers, and spent next two years on the road, performing all over the United States, Mexico and Canada.

After leaving the show, she moved back to Alabama and became a house singer in a local nightclub. While there, she signed to a recording contract with Warner Brothers Records, which relocated her to Nashville where she created music that made the charts in Billboard magazine. After three years of success, she made the decision to walked away from a music career to start a family. She and her husband (Cheyney) have a wonderful son (Zac) who is now a pilot for Southwest. No regrets on that decision!

In 1996, Jimmi used her experience in the industry to start a talent agency, where she represented over 100 actors for Film, TV, and Voiceovers. After 20 productive years, she decided to "officially” retire.

“I have always been creative, making collaged and painted bottles, dabbling in pottery and Interior Design…. I fell in love with abstract art while traveling and visiting museums. It was a medium that I had always wanted to try but the time was never right. Quite by accident, I found alcohol inks and was totally mesmerized that you arrange the paint by using air, not a brush like you use for acrylic or oil paint. As the inks move, they create designs and colors. To master this skill, you must practice, practice, practice!”

Jimmi first started her fine art journey by designing hand painted tiles that could be used as coasters, gifting them to friends which, when seen by THEIR friends, was approached about creating custom sets. A new career was born! Creating the coasters evolved into painting cradle boxes, yupo (plastic paper) and just about any items she could find that were conducive to accepting alcohol inks.

“I started thinking “outside the box”, which has led me to painting on glass and clear acrylic. The results were promising so I kept practicing on smaller pieces until I felt confident to tackle larger ones. These turned out beautifully and I knew I had found my niche in the art world.

Creating something from the beginning to the end, not knowing where the inks will take you, is a mesmerizing experience for me. Each painting is a one-of-a-kind creation that cannot be reproduced. It’s impossible to make the inks flow the same in one painting as in another. What you see in my work is my internal interpretation of what I see. For example, while painting MAN IN THE MOON I started seeing a sky unfold, one that was not calm and blue, but one that was threatening in a beautiful way. Of course, someone else might see something totally different.”