Perfume bottles, cosmetics, desserts, fashion-inspired subjects, retro imagery, and ordinary objects become something brighter and more theatrical.
About the artist
Creativity was there long before I called myself an artist.
Outer Rim Homestead has always been about more than one thing. It is our family’s story of building a life with our own hands, learning as we go, taking some pretty big risks, and trying to create something that feels genuinely ours. My artwork became an unexpected but incredibly important part of that story.
I became a licensed esthetician, and my love of colour, beauty, and transformation led me into working as a makeup artist. Colour theory, cosmetics, texture, contrast, glamour, and the way a small creative choice can completely change how something feels still show up in my paintings today.
Where painting began
A birthday gift changed the direction of our lives.
For my birthday in January 2021, Tyler bought me painting supplies. Neither of us could have known what that gift would eventually become.
I had no formal art-school background and no carefully planned career change. I experimented, made mistakes, learned new techniques, and kept painting. What began as a birthday gift became something I couldn’t imagine giving up.
A canvas gave me a new place to use everything I already loved about colour, contrast, composition, beauty, and transformation—but without the same boundaries.
Colour without a formula
Polished, playful, strange, textured—whatever the next painting needs.
Jacqueline’s work moves freely between glamour, nature, food, fashion, abstraction, and experimentation.
Some pieces are polished and elegant. Others are heavily textured, expressive, strange, or entirely outside the comfort zone.
The goal is not to find one formula and repeat it forever. It is to keep discovering what is possible on the next canvas.
Rock bottom and rebuilding
We lost our home. For a while, the RV was home.
Our financial struggles eventually reached the point where we lost our home. For a couple of months, our family lived in the RV while we tried to understand what came next and how we were going to rebuild.
There is no polished way to tell that part of our story. We had hit rock bottom. The uncertainty was exhausting, the future felt fragile, and simply getting through each day demanded more from us than most people ever saw.
That chapter is part of Outer Rim Homestead too. This is not an overnight-success story or a carefully staged highlight reel. It is the story of a family that lost its footing, kept creating, kept working, and began building again from the lowest point of our lives.
The life behind the paintings
Building a different kind of life is not always romantic.
Our family has weathered financial struggles, major changes, plans that didn’t work, plans that changed completely, and seasons where figuring out what came next felt like its own full-time job.
Sometimes building this life is exciting. Sometimes it is exhausting. Sometimes you’re creating something beautiful, and sometimes you’re standing in the mud wondering how this possibly became your life.
Through all of it, we’ve continued raising Aiden, working toward the homestead we’re trying to create, and finding ways to turn the things we genuinely love into something sustainable. That is what Outer Rim Homestead represents. It isn’t a story about having everything figured out. It’s about trying anyway.
Why “Outer Rim”?
The clue is in our wedding date: May the Fourth.
We were married on May 4—a deliberate choice for two huge Star Wars nerds. “Outer Rim” became the perfect name for the life we wanted to build: a little unconventional, a little beyond the familiar map, and entirely our own.
The homestead, the artwork, the family projects, and even the ideas that sound slightly ridiculous at first all belong to that same galaxy.
Art beyond the canvas
The collection is becoming a trail people can explore.
Rather than keeping everything inside a traditional gallery, we work with businesses and community locations to put artwork in places people already visit.
The interactive Outer Rim Art Passport turns those displays into an art trail. Visitors scan a location-specific QR code, collect the stop in their account, and can earn a free print after five participating locations.
It is our slightly unconventional way of encouraging people to explore local businesses, discover artwork, and make the experience more fun—and we are only getting started.
The not-so-shameless plug
Come along for the rest of the adventure.
The paintings are one part of a much bigger story. On YouTube we share the process of building our homestead, tackling projects ourselves, learning things the hard way, raising our family, celebrating experiments that work, and laughing at a few that absolutely do not.
It is not a perfectly polished highlight reel—and that is the point.
Watch & subscribe on YouTubeThank you for following along, visiting the businesses and locations that support my work, sharing my paintings, and giving them a place in your homes and lives.
Jacqueline Bauder Artist · Outer Rim Homestead Creations