“I work mainly with oil paint as it has exceptional properties: it gives colours solidity, lustre and depth, while its transparency makes wonderful glazes. I also use acrylic colour for its iridescence and metallic qualities, and its magical capacity to change or enhance overlying colours depending on the play of light on the picture, or the position of the viewer. Many of the paintings are created by a process of building up and scraping back layers of paint. Pouring liquid glazes onto the canvas forces me to work with complete spontaneity. I would probably describe my work as contemporary art or contemporary impressionism.
Jessica Zoob trained at Central School of Art and Nottingham University, during which time she travelled extensively. For seven years, she worked as a theatre designer at countless venues including the Bristol Old Vic, the Royal National Theatre and Greenwich Theatre.
Since 2000, she has worked exclusively as a British contemporary artist from her East Sussex studio. She exhibits regularly in and around London and has works in private collections worldwide. Collectors include Bernard Jacobson, Harry Styles, Juan Diego Florez, Francois Delage and Walter Dalkeith the Earl of Dalkeith.
Jessica Zoob now resides In Hong Kong, is hugely inspired by Asia and delighted to be represented by Katie De Tilly.
She had a solo show in Cape Town with Southern Guild and has been the featured contemporary artist at London Design Week in Chelsea Harbour, London. She has had major solo collections shown at Loughran Gallery, Motcomb Street, Rove Gallery in Hoxton Square, The Great Room 1508 London, NEOBankside, South Bank and Medici Gallery, Cork Street. She has created a range of award winning textiles called Desire in collaboration with Romo.
“I look for hope and redemption by celebrating beauty in its various forms, be it in urban decay, a Hebridean storm, or a Butterfly’s wing.”