Jaelle Pedroli is a Western Australian artist, living and working in Perth, (Whadjuk Noongar Boodjar).

Since graduating with a Bachelor of Visual Arts and Diploma of Education from Curtin University (2004), Pedroli has continued to work as an Artist and a Visual Arts educator. Pedroli has intensified her focus on her own artistic practice since 2020.

Her work has been acquired by the City of Melville’s public collection and she has been recognised as a finalist in several prestigious awards, including the Minnawarra Art Award, Royal Perth Landscape Prize, Rockingham Art Prize and Lethbridge Small Scale Art Award.

 Artist Statement

I was raised in the Southern Forest (Boojarah) region of Western Australia. My formative years living in the Australian bush have informed a visual language that is now tangible in my landscape paintings. Through painting, I connect with the natural world around me, reflecting on my sense of belonging within the landscapes I inhabit and paint.

In my work, I frequently depict rivers, coastal thresholds, and geological formations, where familiar landscapes are subtly altered through mark-making and colour to bring forth luminosity and intensify atmosphere. Rocks glow, currents slow or quicken, and natural systems are suspended between observed reality and an emotional response to the place. These interventions invite viewers to experience the painted landscape not as a static scene, but as a living presence, one that is felt as much as it is seen.

I create small en plein air studies within the Western Australian landscape. Being present and immersed in place is fundamental to my pursuit of capturing its aliveness. In the studio, larger paintings are developed from these studies alongside photographic imagery and drawings that are gathered whilst working on location, allowing each work to evolve between lived experience and reflection.

Throughout the painting process, I emphasise mark-making, colour relationships, and the material presence of light. Layered applications of paint create depth and movement, with loose, gestural marks resolving into more defined forms as the viewer steps back. The paintings’ balance control and spontaneity, mirroring the behaviour of nature itself, direct yet unpredictable, resulting in works that hold both a soft luminosity and an electric vibrancy.

My work reflects an ongoing engagement with the Australian landscape as a living, relational space, shaped through experience, memory, and presence.