About

Jacoba Paulus

Jacoba Paulus is a freelance visual artist with a focus on oil painting and drawing. Her latest work shows portraits of human and humanoid beings and imaginary landscapes, which she develops by means if intuitive drawing.

Originally from Germany, Jacoba holds a degree in illustration from Univesity of Applied Sciences in Hamburg. She has shown her work in various exhibitions in North Germany and Scotland.

Jacoba lives and works in Hawick in the Scottish Borders.

Photo: Therese Walther

Artist Statement

"Jacoba Paulus produces oil paintings, ink drawings, and recycles the leftovers in collages.

Exposed to their environment and fellow human beings, everyone puts up with their life conditions in their own personal manner. Things might be calm and peaceful, or tricky, even hazardous. How are they going to cope? Some will contemplate their situation, others will lose their head, or their balance.

Jacoba develops her work by randomly running a brush over the surface continously without pause or hesitation. Eventually something will emerge, suggestions of forms, creatures or things, and she then turns to develop them further. It plays out like a game: The results can be disturbing, or funny, or both.

Jacoba likes her creatures to reach out to their viewers for a comment, to ask them for acknowledgment, recognition, compassion, or just a laugh."