A Preview of
Paintings
Oatlands Gaol
27 October – 1
November 2012
By Lucy Wilson
Jesse Eynon chose to paint the Tasmanian Midlands for the
light, its theatrical light. From her Cygnet studio she liberated herself by
packing just what she needed to embark on a six-week Tas Regional Arts residency
based in Oatlands. Having surrendered to the demands of mothering three
children, the youngest now being six, she left her family behind to devote
herself purely to painting.
It takes Jesse a long time to find a fragment in the world
she wants to paint. She always knows when she finds it. It speaks to her gut
instinct. The fragments she found were stretches of road, moments in
cloudscapes, archetypal images like a man walking with dog, and old town
buildings. The images she exhibited in Oatlands speak of a powerful meeting
between her paintbrush and the fragments she found – almost as if they’d been
waiting to be painted by her.
