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JESSIE PITT

Lives and works in Melbourne, Falls Creek, Australia and Austria

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I have been drawing and painting for as long as I
remember, in the last couple of years of high school
I focused on art subjects and after school went on
to study at the outer eastern college of TAFE in
Melbourne, graduating with an associate diploma of
visual art majoring in the final year in printmaking.
After TAFE I weighed up the options of continuing to
study art or to work and travel overseas. I opted for
travel and haven't looked back since. I have now for 13
years been traveling back and forth between Australia
and Europe. During the whole time continuing to
create, with six solo exhibitions in falls creek and
2 in Sankt Anton am Arlberg. I draw from photos as
the way i draw is time consuming and with rapidly
changing light and cold temperatures drawing outside
is not so practical. I take a lot of photos myself and
also collecting photos from friends along the way.
I am fascinated by the effects of light and shadow
and often find myself not drawing mountains but
light and shadow that become mountains when I
stand back, and my drawings seem to come into
focus from a distance and not always right up close.
I find that the natural beauty of our planet offers
limitless motivation and material to draw, that light
and shadow is what defines what we see into shapes
and things that we recognize and can change the
mood and shape of what we see in so many ways.
The media I use is varied and is often dictated by
my transient lifestyle. Even though I majored in
printmaking I tend to draw more using materials that
are easy to take with me such as drawing ink, various
pencils, compressed charcoal, contè, pastel, pens
and acrylic paint. I find that I am incredibly lucky to
be able to combine the things that I love most in life
traveling, mountains, art.... it has enabled me to grow
and develop as an artist and my art takes on a life of
its own developing and moving in different directions
so never becoming boring it becomes more an issue
of not having enough time!

 mONt eVerest, 2006 DRAwINg INk, PASTEL, COMPRESSED
CHARCOAL, CONTè ON ACID FREE PAPER 62x42 IN. /159x100 CM.
 GLaCIer DU tOUr et L'aIGUILe DU CHarDONNet, 2008
PENCIL, PEN ON ACID FREE PAPER 7½x12 IN. /20x30 CM.
 UNtItLeD, (KaraKOrUm, PaKIstaN), 2007 ACRYLIC ON
CANvAS 18x20 IN. /45,7x61 CM.
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