Meet Illawarra artist Jasmin Choice
Jasmin Choice’s scope of art ranges from graphite life drawing, highly contrasted acrylic portraits and dreamscapes to enchanted watercolour landscapes where there are usually one or two anonymous silhouetted people interacting with each other...
Jasmin Choice’s scope of art ranges from graphite life drawing, highly contrasted acrylic portraits and dreamscapes to enchanted watercolour landscapes where there are usually one or two anonymous silhouetted people interacting with each other and/or in the environment. She loves the feedback about the varied ways people see the relationship between the silhouetted figures.
Jasmin moved to Thirroul in 2019, just before the pandemic. When the pandemic hit in early 2020 she took two months off work and indulged herself by being creative, averaging a completed artwork every three to four days.
“When it rains it pours” is how she described her level of production at that time. She found inspiration in wandering through the subtropical rainforest of the Illawarra escarpment.
Of late, rain and leeches have caused her to look inwards for inspiration from meditation, introspection and dreaming. Often she finds herself in a playful, enchanted mood when drawing or painting which is strongly reflected in her work.
Jasmin is self-taught and acknowledges that she has a lot to learn even though she has been drawing and painting since she can remember. She comes from a very artistic extended family where her grandparents were prolific artists.
Jasmin is a kinesiologist with clinics in Thirroul and Sydney’s inner west. She describes kinesiology as a process of gentle facilitation whereby we can be guided to work through and process unresolved stress. She certainly “walks the talk” in her own art, finding that mediation and “regulating her state of being” allows her to find her “own answers” and creativity, so that she can really commit to her art and artistic well being.
