Jesse Fischer

Jesse Fischer is a painter from Tilburg, The Netherlands.
 While studying at AKV Sint Joost, he was primarily focused on creating two-dimensional works. The last few years he experimented with analog photography, Photoshop, and graphic methods, like etching and woodcuts.

He has been drawing for as long as he can remember. As a kid, he always enjoyed creating stories in image or film. This way of play felt natural, and without question as a good thing. As an art student, however, the act of play began to feel like an act of wasting time. As if his way of working wouldn’t be the fine arts way. As if, in order to create some “legitimate” artwork, he would have to start looking outside of himself. To be something that is not him.

It took him quite some time to realize the act of play is how he would like to work. Ever since this realization, he has been able to concentrate and his work has been going in a much clearer direction. Although there is a lot to learn, for the moment he knows which way to go.

The symbolic elements he uses in his work are found and collected from daily life. These could be dreams or memories, or people, objects, and places that touched him, or literature, myths, and certain things that he finds on the internet. These elements shape the way he experiences and shape, as it were, the language in which he tries to tell his stories.