I am Jade Robertson, Born 1976, Chester, UK. Full time contemporary artist. After studying printed Textile Design at East London University, I moved to New York to pursue a design career. A few years in, I felt I desperately needed to get back to drawing and painting, anything "hands on" after years of computer design work, which felt ultimately, soulless.
What I want to do in my work is invoke intrigue and mystery. The “dark and light” and the “suggested” imagery of these “spaces”within my work.
My Paintings are just at the intersection of abstraction and landscape. I am influenced by the works of Caravaggio, Turner and Cai-Que-Qiang. I am interested in negative space, depth and perspective that in many ways look and feel like the familiar world around us but are also ambiguous, general and abstracted. In my world, in my head and on paper I want visual plains and geometric shapes to intersect, overlap, pile up and create a sense of visual distance and depth that resonates with the viewer. My work is my visual voice of feelings and emotion and my deep connection to nature. I hope my paintings take you somewhere, on a journey of intrigue and magic, mystery and a desire to keep questioning and looking further.
My studio is in Paris, close to Bastille.
My collectors are scattered all over the world with work in southern Italy, New York and an industrial office in South America. Recent collaborations include “Café du Cyclist”, road and off road shoe campaign, Vivant Organic Wines, Maps Project, Commercial work for banks and educational buildings in South Carolina, USA
My last show, “Hide and Seek” was at Art and Light Gallery, South Carolina, earlier this year.
I mostly work on the floor so as to “dive into” my paintings. I use a variety of materials, mops heads, squeegees, spray bottles, my hands etc. I tend to work on four or five paintings at one time, so as to paint very instinctively. I can do a painting in a day or it can take months to feel right.
PRESENT AND PAST SHOWS, PUBLICATION AND REPRESENTATION
2023 September Art21, Paris, France
2023 April Art and Light Gallery, South Carolina. 4-30 April “Hide and Seek”
2023 January Café du Cycliste, Nice. Gravel and Road shoe campaign, Abstract paintings
2022 Art and Light Gallery, South Carolina.
2022 Vivant Organic wine, Paris. Map project, Painting large scale water colour maps (including birds eye view of buildings and gardens) for publication.
2021 Her agent in New York sells originals and prints to a number of well known galleries, shops and Museums in New York.
2019/20 HAUS Studio Interiors, South Carolina. Original Paintings and commission map of the “Hitchcock woods”
2017 Kunstraum Gallery, Brooklyn. Map Show
2016 Her map work is published in “Vieques and Culebra “by Nieves Victor Manuel.
2015 Gallery Galleon, Vieques, Puerto Rico, Water Colour Paintings, SOLD OUT SHOW
2015 “El Blok” a 2015 running and biking guide to the island.
2011 Claver Gallery, Brooklyn. Digital works