Jack Ellis

Jack Ellis was born in Mt. Gambier, South Australia, where he lived for 18 years before moving to Adelaide to study a Bachelor of Education/Arts at Flinders University. Once graduated, Jack worked briefly as a high school teacher, but in 2012 was to pack his life up in South Australia and moved to Sydney, NSW, after being accepted to study full time acting at the National Institute of Dramatic Art. In Sydney is where Jack’s artistic passions blossomed, during the day as an actor in training and in the evenings as a self-taught sketch artist. Jack began using paint in 2017 and has never looked back. Jack has worked as an actor, high school and primary school teacher, program director, key-note speaker, performing arts tutor and artist.

Escapism - Landscapes reimagined

Escapism is the most honest reason I paint. My days are busy, oftentimes chaotic, and highly active. Painting has become important therapy to me. I escape to my studio nightly, detached from the responsibilities of the world. An innocent reason to detach, imagine and explore.

My work is heavily influenced by the natural variations occurring in landscapes. I am driven by crude textures, entangled woodlands, lost horizon lines, scaped peaks, and wispy acidic skies.