Jessica Esther Hoflick makes big paintings on un-stretched canvasses, or preferably old tarps and boat covers. She works in a world that teeters between representational and irrational or abstracted. She hangs a clock on her studio wall that ticks backwards, and she moves slowly into the present by existing. As often as possible - by existing in her studio. The old tarps remind her of her past, she comes from a family of drumming sailors and a small cottage community on a lake called Chemong. Jessica completed her B.A. in Studio Art in 2007 from the University of Guelph. Her most recent explorations include a Post Graduate Certificate in Expressive Arts from the Haliburton School of the Arts, and the launching of her new business - The Living Art Room in Guelph, Ontario. Jessica Teaches art lessons from her home, as well as teaching Drawing and Painting at two local art schools. In her studio she also makes small sculptures from found objects - and these are sometimes paintings too. She explores relationships- dyads. Past. Rural. Urban. Present. Organic; artificial. Communication is questioned, its progress, and shortfalls. She asks the same of nutrition and agriculture. In her work you might see artificially coloured fruits combined with dismantled keyboard parts, or water colours interjected by telephone wires. Her most recent work specifically challenges artificial flavours as a replacement for the natural sensuality of organic produce. Esther toys with ambiguity, paints intuitively and wonders at humanity.
interests
Painting, Sculpture, Writing.