NEXUS MODERN ART

Jessie Breakwell    

Education- Bachelor of Fine Art (Majoring in Painting)
RMIT University

Exhibitions include:
2006 Blink, Armadale
Hastings St Gallery, Noosa
Oriel Gallery Ascot, Brisbane
The Beverly Hills Hotel, Los Angeles
Swiss Cottage Gallery, London.

Collections:
Toaster Building, Sydney Harbour

Master in the Making, Article in Style Magazine

Jessica Breakwell exudes that inexplicable air of a famous artist in the making. If the calibre of her current work is an indication of her future artistic success, then her goal to have her work hung in one of Australia’s National Galleries may be truly attainable.

Jessie’s work is offbeat, quirky and full of wonder. Strongly influenced by the enigmatic Brett Whiteley and French Fauvist artist Henri Matisse, Jessie’s vibrant paintings evoke a sense of enchantment and fun providing light relief and a satisfying diversion from inescapable reality.

“I don’t like to take life too seriously,” Jessie says. “I’m not into realism, there’s enough drama going on in the world at the moment so I prefer to take a lighter look at life.”

And that she does. “The woman in the shower” is one of Jessie’s works which is an instant visual delight and slightly eccentric with its small shards of glass ‘dripping’ from the bath tap whilst the bather, donning a real shower cap, looks disdainfully into the distance!

Jessie breathes life into her subjects by combining mixed media with three dimensional treasures such as twigs found on the beach, mirror fragments, speckled feathers, colourful sequins, and newspaper which provides the exact impact she needs when her human forms need shading. Various tones of blue and red are predominant in many of Jessie’s works which often depict interior room scenes and vignettes of the artist’s daily life experiences.

Jessie has studied Fine Art and Painting at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and held successful exhibitions at Picasso Gallery in London, the posh Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles and sell-out openings in Melbourne. She has owned her own interactive gallery in Melbourne’s stylish High Street, and enjoyed an eye-opening stint as an art tutor to the wildly wild Ozzy Osbourne children.