JADE ROBERTSON A British/American abstract artist living and working in Paris, France. Born in Chester, UK, 1976. After the completion of a foundation course in art and design at Blacon Art college, Chester, Jade went on to graduate with higher honers from East London University in 1998.

Mediums; oil, acrylic pastel and pencil on canvas and paper.

Jade has lived in New York for 17 years and Vieques, Puerto Rico for 4 years. She currently works and resides in Jouars Pontchartrain, France. Her living environments and travels have directly influenced her work.

Jades paintings are just at the intersection of abstraction and natural landscapes. She is interested in duality, negative space, dark and light, distance and perspective that in many ways looks and feels like the familiar world around us but is also ambiguous, general and abstracted. One can see she is inspired by the deep sea and the cosmos. “The stars are always a source of wonder and awe to me”

“My paintings are inspired by a sense of childlike wonder, I’ve carried with me since childhood—a feeling first sparked by The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. My grandmother used to read it to me, and she would tell me there were fairies at the bottom of the garden, something I still like to believe. This sense of magic shaped the way I see the world. As a child, I would go on Sunday walks, imagining I was friends with the hedgehogs, insects, and creatures in the woods, all part of an unfolding story. Whether it’s the quiet beauty of the English countryside, the tropical vibrance of faraway landscapes, or the shifting light of day and night, I see nature as an ever-changing secret garden—full of mystery, enchantment, and an unexplainable magic I try to capture in my paintings.

When I paint, I step back into that secret world. If I ever have life doubt, questions or “problems”, my painting takes me through that portal, back to my childhood, back to these memories. It is always there, waiting for me”

“Paint; I think, behaves like an organic material, it has fluidity that most other mediums do not have. Painting to me is like dancing naked through a forest, free diving or swimming in a lake using the body as much, if not more than the mind”