About

Jacqueline Elley has been working as an artist for 20 years. Her work is primarily influenced by coastal environments.

Through a diverse art practice of drawings, paintings, light boxes and installations, she explores the embodiment of light.

Her paintings have a fluidity, transparency and luminosity that is suggestive of their watery subject matter, whether representational or not. Solid forms, and patterns become tenuous between the pull of order and chaos; what is known above the surface and the vast unknown below the liminal plane.

The form that an Installation or Light Sculpture may take is influenced by materials, (often found, collected or gifted). Light is drawn with, diffused and used to “illuminate” natural microscopic subjects and environmental and concerns, making the unseen visible.