Jessica Taft is a Melbourne-based Australian figurative artist painting the ocean, the body, and the quiet space between them. Classically trained, she works in oil and watercolour, building each painting the way a self is built: layer by layer, passages of fine realism melting into expressive abstraction.
Her work explores what we carry - grief, joy, heartbreak, becoming - and the moment that weight changes shape into strength. Figures suspended between memory and now. Flowers blooming straight out of the body. Water you can finally stop fighting and float in. Made for thoughtful people who want their homes to feel like sanctuaries, and who know strength and softness were never opposites.
Her current body of work, What We Carried, is available here as original paintings.