About

Jay Cool is a Suffolk-based artist and author, who re-emerged from creative obscurity during the Covid Lockdown.

Freed from the restrictions of a public workplace, she shored herself up with an army of paints, pencils, pens, brushes, glue and anything that volunteered itself up to be committed to canvas or paper.

Through somewhat questionable lenses, she created landscapes and laughs egged on by daily lockdown walks in and around Sudbury, and by the bumbling authority figures who dominated the news channels.

Now based in Ipswich, Jay captures reimagined scenes, extending to her birth-roots in Shropshire, and back to her home in Suffolk. She has exhibited artwork in: Painters’ Café, Sudbury; Whistler’s Gallery – DanceEast, Ipswich and the Buttermarket, Ipswich.

Notable works include ‘The Woodbridge Buoys’, which captures scenery along the River Deben; a short story ‘Lockdown’, which was aired on BBC Radio Suffolk; the Lockdown paintings – ‘Complacency’, ‘Anxiety’ and ‘Panic’ – featured on BBC Upload; her illustration of Steven Ellis’ poem, ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’, for the online platform Words & Whispers; poems published by Dissident Voice; and flash-fiction piece ‘ Will my time come at seventy-five?’ on Paragraph Planet.com.

Paranoia oozes out of Jay’s world of gouache and collage pieces, as the viewer is asked to consider: Can anyone truly be free in a society within which even the most seemingly inanimate plants, landmarks and objects see everything?

jaycool@sillysavvycreations.com

Commissions considered.

Relevant links:

Suffolk Punch Comedy Club

Colchester Crazies Get Creative

Silly-Savvy Salopian in Suffolk

You can get in touch via Instagram, Linkedin, by emailing jaycool@sillysavvycreations.com, or by using the contact form below.