Epp Jääger is an international artist and architect, currently residing in Singapore. She was born in Estonia and studied art and architecture in Sweden. Having worked a number of years as an architect in Scandinavia and Singapore, she felt that she needed to recreate herself. In this thinking process she find her way back to her origin, which is create things which bring bring joy to life. She started to paint again 2020.  

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In 2013 an adventure took her  to South East Asia, where  she discovered a world very different from her own –  a world full of vibrant colours, rich of ornaments and fabulous artefacts and interesting people. She immediately recognised what she wanted to express with her art, which was sharing her personal experience of the exotic people and places around the world in colours.  

 

As she travelled around the region, she became fascinated with people and their way of living and working. During her travels she observed the locals, their outfits, clothing, facial decorations; also ornaments, patterns in fabrics, artefacts and architecture.  This became the base and inspiration for her paintings.

 

Her work is about perceiving and documenting everyday lives of the people and transfiguring her imagination into subjective narrative by using vivid colours and rich decoration. Her paintings are an expression of admiration for humanity – willingness to express joy and happiness despite the hardships of everyday life. Working in acrylic paints, she employs mixing of different styles. She loves to use bold colour pallet, monochrome painting, contrasting colours and decorative mark making.

 

While travelling she observes people and places via camera lens and a sketch book, and transforms this experience into her subjective expression of reality. She is currently working on her Singapore series. However she is constantly seeking to be exposed to new exotic people and places across the world.