Jessica Olpp - Cuisine et Campagne, The Corner Store Gallery
Jessica Olpp - Cuisine et campagne (“Kitchen and Countryside”)
Exhibition Dates: September 24th - October 6th
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Opening Night: Thursday September 25th 6pm
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Jessica Olpp is a Melbourne-based visual artist whose work reflects a quiet lyricism and deep appreciation for stillness. Raised among the bushlands of Warrandyte and having lived and worked in France, Jessica brings an introspective and poetic quality to her paintings. A lifelong creative, she began painting as a meditative balance to her career as a French teacher. Her background in classical dance, poetry, and foreign languages informs her visual art practice, which is rich in emotional nuance, atmosphere, and a sense of calm.
Jessica Olpp’s artwork has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across Australia, including a recent solo show at Wild Canary in Queensland. She is a multi-year finalist in notable national art prizes such as Inside This Box at The Corner Store Gallery, The Next Big Thing at Toowoomba Gallery, and The Doyles Art Award. Her work has been featured at the Affordable Art Fair in both Brisbane and Sydney, showcased in Country Style magazine, and selected by interior designers for commercial spaces including Middle Park European and Elio’s Place on Flinders Lane.
Now based in her Caulfield North studio, Jessica continues to create paintings inspired by both natural landscapes and cultural experiences, combining sensitivity, stillness, and refined technique.
A gentle moodiness characterises Jessica’s paintings which are typically inspired by the French and Australian countryside and simple domestic vignettes. Knowing when to stop painting usually comes intuitively; she would rather say less than too much in a piece, prioritising atmosphere over specific detail. Her work has been described as serene, evocative and nostalgic; indeed, her paintings are an extension of a certain feeling when holding a paintbrush as years of observation of beautiful things and places rise from the subconscious. This exhibition titled Cuisine et campagne (“Kitchen and Countryside”) is centred around the joys of life at home and the beauty of open terrain, tied together by a cohesive palette of muted pastels and earthy tones. Jessica takes pleasure in mixing colours instinctively, softly blending out edges and observing light and shadow, which results in a contemplative mood across this collection of still-life and landscape paintings.
Jessica Olpp, The Corner Store Gallery.
Jessica Olpp, The Corner Store Gallery.