Jessica trained at Central School of Art and Nottingham University, during which time she travelled extensively. For seven years, she worked as a theatre designer at countless venues including the Bristol Old Vic, the Royal Opera House, the National Theatre and Greenwich Theatre. Since 2000, Jessica has worked exclusively as a painter. She now divides her time between Sussex and Hong Kong.

Jessica has had solo shows at galleries such as 10 Chancery Lane in Hong Kong, Southern Guild in Cape Town, Loughran Gallery on Motcomb Street, Rove Gallery in Hoxton Square, The Great Room at 1508 London, NEOBankside on the South Bank and the Medici Gallery, Cork Street. She has recently collaborated with The Hong Kong Sinfonietta and sold her work at Art Basel.

“I first encountered Jessica’s work when I interviewed her for the Sunday Times ‘Style’ magazine several years ago. I was quite simply blown away by her ability to translate raw emotion and energy onto the canvas, creating whole domains of colour and texture that touch a nerve deep inside our own psyche. This is the thing you need to know about Jessica Zoob: she is a portal through the looking-glass. When we look at her paintings – really look at them – we see mirrored there our hopes, fears, dreams and dreads. No wonder people often cry when they encounter her work. The emotions it engenders is related to our most innermost thoughts and feelings. It is not just that we see: it is that we are seen.

Over the past twenty years I have watched Jessica flower from an artist of talent to one of maturity to the exceptional force she is today. Like all great artists, writers and musicians, she produces work that appears effortless and ‘right’ with no indication of the struggles it has taken to achieve. Believe me, this is a mirage. I have seen how cruel the muse of painting can be, driving her to work eighteen-hour days, breaking her back with the sheer physicality of the process, exhausting her spirit, wringing out from her every milligram of feeling. Yet I can also vouch for the fact she is blessed with angels, who have breathed into her new energy, strength and optimism at her darkest moments and who add their own magical touches to her canvases. Jessica’s paintings inhabit a space that is neither landscape nor abstract: they hint at a realm perfectly placed between earth and heaven.” – Helen Chislett, Journalist & Author.