Playful palette knife artworks to feel good about!
Emerging artist in Melbourne.
With over 20 years of private artistic exploration, Jesslyn has sought to understand a diverse range of painting, printmaking and drawing techniques. Ready to show her work to the community, she took up a studio at an artist collective in 2023 to begin work on a cohesive collection featuring thickened layers of acrylic paint, applied with palette knives to tell a colour-filled impasto story.
Jesslyn’s work transforms special visited places and often-overlooked local treasures into pop-art landscapes. Each piece reflects meticulous planning of colour combinations, favouring split complementary colour palettes and fluorescent underpainting. Modern illustration and printmaking artists have been a source of inspiration and influence on Jesslyn’s emerging work.
As a professional Medical Sonographer in a Melbourne hospital, her daily experience provides opportunities for detailed images and thought. As an artist however, she seeks to shed those details and finds beauty in simplifying the colours, shapes and shadows of the natural world. Her lively, vibrant and bold style has garnered recognition, including winning the 2D category at Artz Blitz 2016 and People’s Choice in 2017. Her paintings have found homes in private collections across Australia.
With group and solo exhibitions in 2024, Jesslyn is on a mission to explore ever crisper and more joyful colour combinations, while celebrating the beauty of her neighbourhood.