Jayden Fallis

Jayden Fallis | Sound Of Citrus | 2024

Your work often includes symbolic and surreal elements. What role does symbolism play in your creative process?

Symbolism plays a big role in my process. I enjoy creating a story or narrative in my paintings and symbolism is a tool for creating a mood or moment. It is a universal language but yet our personal experiences change the implications of an object or animal.

You mentioned that your art explores human relationships and connection. Can you share a personal experience that inspired one of your pieces?

The Sound of Clementine is a piece I made about music. I am a drummer so I made this to incapsulate the feeling of playing in a band and creating or learning a song. Every person having their own weight in the project, choosing to work together to create something feels magical.

Jayden Fallis | Room | 2024

How do you choose the visual metaphors you use—like food, limbs, or natural elements?

My art usually starts off as a poem I have written or something I have read and the ideas sprout from there. I often write about memories or the relationship between my physical body and nature and how it nurtures me through food and many other ways.

Several of your works feature disjointed or floating body parts. What do these fragmented forms represent for you?

I think it stems from me being indecisive. I struggled with changing my idea constantly and then I decided I did not have to finish painting the figure if I want to move on to something else. This resulted into a style a I really like, I think it resembles dimensions or a place between consciousness and unconsciousness.

Jayden Fallis | Lunch | 2025

What does your painting process look like? Do you plan your compositions in detail or allow spontaneity?

Most of my ideas for compositions come to me as I am falling asleep so I keep a book in my bed that I scribble in to then refine in the morning. Once I start painting though the composition usually changes, the more I look at it I think of new ideas.

Your work often balances tenderness with discomfort. Is this contrast intentional?

It begun unconsciously but I have recently started to nurture that part of my art style. I enjoy the Alice in Wonderland type of energy that it has. Since a lot of my art is inspired by memories I think that contrast between tenderness and discomfort happens naturally in life, so it only makes sense that it translates onto the canvas.

Jayden Fallis | Garden | 2025

Who are some artists or movements that influence your practice?

Some visual artists that I love are Rae Klein and of course Frida Kahlo. Rae Klein balances space and detail so well, I admire her use of colour and texture really one of the best artists of our time. Frida Kahlo mastered surrealism in a way that I do not believe can be recreated, her art is so poetic which I aspire to obtain. As for writers who inspire me, Toni Morrison writes so beautifully and creates such complex stories that fascinate me.