Escaping inertia, 2024
Jessie Beard is an abstract landscape painter from Old Bar, Biripi Country, NSW. Her works are observations of nature, with a particular interest in the rejuvenation and constant changes occurring within her local region. Jessie’s artistic process begins with experience, immersing into her surroundings, documenting and savouring what can be carried through the start to finish journey of an artwork. Through euphoric interpretations that accentuate colour, movement and layering until fine detail, a piece can reveal the many stories bound to a landscape of both the physical environment and personal memories.
Jessie graduated with Distinction in both her Associate Degree in Creative Arts and Design, and Diploma of Visual Arts, and has work in private collections across Australia and overseas.
Her art has also been featured on The Block 2024!
100 x 100cm acrylic on polycotton
Framed in American ash
“The alfresco garden bed looks up at the hanging plant in high regard and jealousy, as today they spin and dance and flaunt their newly blooming flowers. A metaphor for how we place ourselves in life if we leave static normality, be set in motion, evolving and becoming our most desired selves. After taking a long exposure photo of this unfurling moment, I consider how altering the reality of what is in front of me opens up an entire thought process of abstraction and obscured narratives. And not just those of my own but also of my respective audience interpreting the finished artwork, connecting to their memories and visual associations. When I look at my more abstracted works I am transported back to the particular time, what I felt, what type of day it was, how my children were responding to the same sight and that would subconsciously impact what I would create, even if I was yet to realise it would end up on my canvas.”
