Jackman's Art Materials
About Jackman’s Art Materials
Founded in November 2019 in the heart of the UK, Jackman’s Art Materials was born from a passion for creating the finest art materials, designed to provide an exceptional experience for artists.
Marc Jackman, the Founder and Chief Chemist, grew up immersed in the art materials industry. His father, Peter Jackman, dedicated his career to the field before early retirement due to Parkinson’s Disease. Years later, Marc, then working as an accountant and business analyst, envisioned a way to spend more time with his father while building something meaningful together. This vision became Jackman’s Art Materials.
What started as a shared project quickly grew into a pursuit of perfection. Marc’s obsession with quality led to the creation of premium watercolours, Traditional Indian Drawing Inks, and later, acrylics—products that reflect his scientific curiosity and constant drive to innovate.
At Jackman’s, the lab is always buzzing with new ideas, so stay tuned for the exciting products we’re working on next!
Professional Handmade Watercolours
Our mission has always been to craft the purest watercolours possible, continually innovating and collaborating with artists to meet their needs. Our unique binder is thoughtfully composed of hand-picked Kordofan Gum Arabic, distilled water, vegetable glycerin, and a touch of preservative, making nearly all of our watercolours vegan-friendly.
We’ve meticulously considered every detail to provide artists with the best possible experience. By partnering with pigment manufacturers and artists, we ensure access to the finest, most vibrant pigments. Each batch undergoes rigorous testing to guarantee exceptional quality and consistency.
We are committed to refining our processes, investing in advanced machinery, and exploring efficient methods to maximize the potential of every pigment we use.
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Quality Control Process for Watercolours
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Filmed at the SAA studios for Professional Artist Alison C Board’s Own Brand Watercolours featuring Marc Jackman Founder of Jackman’s Art Materials explaining the process we go though to produce our watercolours
Artist Acrylics
Our Flow Formula Acrylics have been designed to be a; Mid viscosity, Low Rheology, Low Sag, Low VOC, Mid Gloss, Highly Pigmented Artist Acrylic that also contain no extenders (we didn’t feel there was any need and like our watercolours why mess with the pigments natural personality’s)
With an obsession over each pigments natural properties of transparency, each Artist Flow Formula Acrylic has been designed to accentuate these, if a pigment is meant to be transparent then it is and vice verca with opaque pigments, we use no ammonia in any of our acrylics, this is a very old method that many manufactures still use to modify the rhyology of their acrylics (They use this as the alcali to swell the acidic coils in the modifyer until a PH between 8 - 8.5 is reached, this method can be very unstable and also adds the smell of amonia to the acrylic) we instead use an inverse way to acheive the rhyology we were looking for, this makes our acrylics extreamly stable and the only thing you can smell is the acrylic polymer as it should be.
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