Jaimia Ollington (b.1986) is a self-taught artist, working from her home in Mount Samson, Queensland. Jaimia spent her childhood on the land and so began her love of the Australian landscape. She began painting earnestly in 2020 after finding herself at home with her young children and looking for a new outlet for her creativity. Taking inspiration from her everyday Jaimia’s paintings feature classic Australian landscapes or items found in her daily rhythms such as coffee cups and garden flowers. She uses thick oil paint to create her paintings, choosing colours and form that value the emotional truth of the subject over exact realism. Jaimia finds great joy in creating and hopes to share this joy with others by painting her everyday life in an authentic, true and beautiful form and in
