About

Thanks for visiting my website, I hope you enjoy!”

“I love to create paintings that make people feel good and happy! I love colour and all my paintings lift a room, making the room bright, happy and alive. Every painting has a positive energy that draws you in to look closer... and every time you really look at the painting you will see something different. My paintings are bold and are very much a statement piece, they will make a room come alive”!

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Kirsten Jackson Bio

A passionate artist since childhood, Melbourne based artist, Kirsten Jackson, studied Visual Arts at the prestigious Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) and has gone on to have a flourishing and fulfilling art career.

For the last 15 years Kirsten has worked as a professional artist, concentrating, predominantly on abstraction. Her career has followed an impressive upward trajectory, collecting a notable array of Australian art awards and highly commended prizes along the way.

Her international standing and profile were consolidated in 2014 with sell out shows in London and Singapore. Kirsten has had sell out shows in 2015,2016 and 2017 in New York, London, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, Hamburg, Stockholm and Sydney.

She has featured in many publications, including Home Beautiful Magazine, the Sun Herald, Inside out Magazine, Real Living magazine and Modern Home Magazine.

 
Artist Statement.

My main motivation is to portray the inherent beauty and harmony that exists in the inter-relationship of colour, composition and form.

I like to work on several pieces simultaneously and my process involves building up layers of materials and textures. My initial layers are thin and fluid, inks and watercolours, as the paintings progress I move into thicker paints, acrylics, varnishes and glazes. I even have a fondness for house paints!  I love the way the work builds, it is an art in itself to know when the piece is complete.

Time is a crucial element of my works. I will take an artwork which I think is finished, into my home and live with it for a few weeks. This way the painting gets to tell me if it is complete, if I need to add or subtract any element. Painting and waiting if you will.

The challenges of composition and palette are paramount when working in abstraction, as there is nowhere to hide, no figuration to divert attention from the purity of the application of paint. This sheer act of application is the nexus of my creative motivation. It is the love of the media and the colour that propels the brush.

I start from an open place within, just as I start with a blank canvas. I avoid a self- conscious intention. Abstraction for me, is a way to communicate the ineffable.  Colours carries emotion, capture and reflect light. The way the colours exist together, side by side and in varying layers of transparency and opacity is my vehicle, my means towards a perception of visual delight, ease and harmony.

I strive for a sense of peace with my abstractions. Primarily I want these works to emanate a constant pulse of joy to and for the viewer. Then I know my work is done.

When not painting Kirsten pursues her other passions. Spending time with her family and running along the beach trails in Melbourne’s bayside area and training for marathons!