Jessica Zoob trained at Central School of Art and Nottingham University, during which time she travelled extensively, spending time on research in China and exploring other parts of Indonesia. For seven years, she worked as a theatre designer at countless venues including the Bristol Old Vic, the Royal National Theatre and Greenwich Theatre. Since 2000, Jessica has worked exclusively as a British contemporary artist, now dividing her time between rural Sussex and her second home in Hong Kong.

Jessica is fascinated by texture, distressed surfaces and graffiti on walls – the history these reveal. In her own work, she first she builds up layers and layers of oils which are then partly obliterated by continuous rubbing back, scraping or cutting into the surface. This ‘architectural’ process treads a fine line between her being in full control of the materials and allowing the unexpected to happen. The yang side to her more usually yin approach is when she uses pure pigments of colour to produce canvases bursting with excitement and energy.

Jessica’s work has been acquired by many notable people internationally, including singer-songwriter Harry Styles, opera singer Juan Diego Flórez, Walter Earl of Dalkeith, eminent gallerist Bernard Jacobson, international businessman and art collector Jose Mugrabi, international businessman and entrepreneur François Delage (ex CEO of De Beers), actress and director Adjoa Andoh and art dealer Lady Camilla Cazalet.

In 2022, Jessica collaborated with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta for a multi-disciplinary visual and music project, in which giant projections of her paintings accompanied live performances of Ravel’s music.

Site-specific commissions include works for the entrances of The Lancasters at Hyde Park, a palace in Dubai and Richard Rogers’ NEO Bankside development. She has had solo shows in London, Cape Town and in Hong Kong.