Jasmine Pradissitto's paintings are a 21st century twist on gestural abstraction. Her ‘light’ paintings are a further exploration into the very nature of what contemporary painting is. As an ex-physicist with a PhD from UCL turned fine artist, (Goldsmiths and London Metropolitan), her pieces are process based and experiments in fabrication using the physical laws either as experimentations in the singular line using gravity, or in the exploration of 'dynamic, kinetic' colour in light and plastic.

Based in South London, she had her first solo show in Regent's Place in 2009 (with Emineo) and has been shortlisted for various prizes including, the Celeste Painting Prize, Lautieri Moores and Creekside and won the prize for Life Drawing at the working Men’s College. She has shown recently at Mascells Gallery, Illumini in Hoxton, and at the Alpan Gallery in New York. Currently, she has a light piece in ‘Precious’, a touring museum show (Brighton) and had a two person show in '09 with Angela Morris-Winmill fashion designer.

In February 2011, she will be showing paintings in ‘light and plastic’ at Kinetica in London. The start of a series based upon the Periodic Table, this body of work is being made in collaboration with Jon Adams and The University of Portsmouth at which she has just started a 3 year visiting post.

These are to be followed by the Florence Biennale in December and two solo shows in 2012 in Venice and Padova.

‘Maths and physics have an elegance which is mirrored in the aesthetic of the visual. Much as variables have to be controlled in these subjects, so too do I apply this to painting, thus allowing one thing total freedom. With the advent of new technologies and materials, the idea of painting being both traditional in that composition, tone etc. have to balance, but also being wonderfully modern and executed in light, fills me with such excitement. These paintings are meant to be truly interactive, as they change in colour with position, thus the observer really can intervene in the artistic process’.