Jessica Sutherland is a Sydney based artist and creative.
She began her professional life in law, working in large corporate law firms in Sydney and New York. But beneath the surface, there was always a burning creative energy. A self-taught artist, Jessica followed her instinctive pull toward colour and texture —and after a chance encounter with Ken Done at a law event in 2023, swapped her legal practice for painting and founded Jessica Art & Design.
Drawn to the emotional power of colour and the way it can stir memory, mood, and meaning, Jessica’s work pulses with a quiet energy. Her paintings explore the language of colour as a form of expression—abstract, intuitive, and deeply personal. Jessica finds creative kinship with the abstract expressionists, while also taking cues from contemporary illustrators and graphic artists like Kindah Khalidy and Stephen Ormandy, whose joyful use of colour and form echo in some of her own practice. Jessica is not limited in what she creates, her vision is to bring Joy through Art. Her colourful designs are now on everything from footballs to ski gaiters - and she is just beginning.
Growing up in Australia beside the water has an affect on people. Jessica’s ‘Reef’ series is a celebration of the sea’s beauty, rhythms, colours, and fragility - offering a vibrant tribute to underwater worlds through a lens of layering and abstraction. Her semi-abstract works invite you to become immersed in these imagined underwater worlds. Her paintings while vibrant, on closer inspection reveal subtle details and layering, encouraging viewers to take time to reflect on these fragile spaces.
Based in Sydney, Australia, Jessica paints from her studio in Northbridge. Her art and designs are instinctive, drawing viewers into a sensory experience - one that encourages them to feel, rather than interpret; to absorb, rather than explain.