Jessica Singh’s Instagram page will get your creative juices flowing in these defeating times. An intoxicating mixture of colors and patterns, with a dash of wit and charm, Singh’s art appeals to a variety of clients from Facebook and Nike to Penguin and Harper Collins. In other words: she’s definitely worth the hype.
Based in Perth, Singh lived in Berlin and London (where she received her BA in Illustration from Central Saint Martins), before returning to Australia. Drawing inspiration from her mixed Indian and American heritage as well as cultural craft and textiles, mythology, music, and mysticism, her artwork is a celebration of multiculturalism and inclusivity.
“I think a lot of what I do is surprisingly unconscious,” she admitted once in an interview with Zeum. “I feel like I have a rolodex of images, colors, patterns in my brain.” According to Singh, she either stores these images visually in her memory or collects them literally, by sticking pictures on her wall. “All these images or colors or patterns kind of get absorbed and processed around,” she notes.
“I kind of get an idea of what has to go together to create an image,” she adds. “What things are associated with each other in my mind and they HAVE to go together. So I get a flash of an image, kind of. Then I will draw a little thumbnail sketch of what all the elements should be. If I think any part needs to be drawn or painted in gouache/scanned I will create those parts first, scan them all. Then I get to work composing the images in Photoshop.”
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