“My work can read as uncomfortable at times, but I like to use playful and energetic colours to create balance. My Imagination seems to hold space for dark stories shot in technicoloured rainbows, so my depiction of real-world-people can be a little humorous and obscure. I’ve heard the term “terrifying” before. The characters themselves are portrayed as fictional and made up. But the feelings behind them are very real to me. Suffocating and violent at times. I create these pieces with a childlike playfulness, with a fearless, messy, wreck less and Chaotic wander.” – Jasmine Jagger
Jasmine has done creative work throughout her life, but only recently has she found her way back to painting in a more serious way, one could almost say that art has found/claimed her back. Jasmine's background hasn't been an easy one, and this is represented in her painting style, use of colour and symbolic imagery. She has simply taken off in painting and has now shown that she is equally at home in sculpture Her figures are constantly twisting and contorting uncomfortably pushing against the picture frame. Her figures and faces show protective devices, spikes that are sharp and big teeth almost revealing a protective animal instinct, and so, her imagery and sculptures seem to depict and symbolize the protection of her vulnerability. The emotion and feelings are deeply apparent in her works, and as she has said, for a large part of her life she has struggled while trying to fit in and cope while fighting the restraints of her own deeply rooted self-beliefs."
Inge Gueble 2022
