About Jaelle Pedroli
Jaelle Pedroli is a Western Australian artist, living and working in Perth, (Whadjuk Noongar Boodjar). She was raised in the Southern Forest (Boojarah) region of WA, and in these formative years, living and forming connection to the Australian bush, she developed the inherent visual language that is now tangible in her artwork.
Since graduating with a Visual Arts degree from Curtin University (2004), Pedroli has continued to work as an artist and a Visual Arts educator. Intensifying her focus on her own practice in the last five years, her artwork has been acquired by the City of Melville public collection (2023) and she has been selected as a finalist for numerous prizes and awards including: the Perth Royal Art Prize for Landscape (2024), Minnawarra Art Award (2024) Lethbridge Small Scale Art Award (2023), Rockingham Art Award (2023) and, Melville Art Award (2022/23/24). She has exhibited with numerous group shows, including The Moores Building, Fremantle (2022) and had her first solo show in February, 2024 at Gallow’s Gallery, Mosman Park.
Artist Statement
My paintings speak to the profound beauty and complexity of the Australian landscape conveying a sense of the interconnectedness of all things.
For me painting incites and initiates the process of being present, of deepening my connection with the world around me. The landscape I paint is not simply a subject to be depicted, but a partner in a conversation. My paintings are as much about the place as they are about my place in making them.
I’m interested in the dynamic interplay of light on the landscape, and the way in which shifting and changing light influences how we see colour, revealing to us a newness to the landscape.
My process is dictated by the ground I use, alternating between primed board and unprimed linen. I enjoy creating paintings that are soft but electric.
On linen the artwork begins with the act of staining, building up with more defined brush marks until a delicate balance of different marks exist, evocative of the organic nuances of the natural world.
Works on board are generally reserved for painting rocks and more solid forms, where I juxtapose these forms with the presence of water. This invites the use of more vibrant colour and faster gestural brushwork, capturing the dynamic energy of the natural world.
Ultimately, my paintings are a celebration of the natural world, and a testament to the enduring power of art to connect us with our deepest selves and the world we inhabit.
Home page photograph credit; Tasj Kremers c/o The City of Melville