Jordan Moody is a painter, photographer, and musician living and working in Ontario, Canada. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University and followed up with a Creative Writing Certificate from Yale University. After many years working in film production across Montreal, Los Angeles and Toronto, Jordan committed to her full-time art practice in 2020.

Jordan’s work explores personal dreamscapes, the colour of memory, and reflects the ever-changing natural world. Working across oil, ink, and acrylic using palette knives, sponges, and building in layers, Jordan paints the atmospheric. Her work frames the present and seeks to capture the etheric quality of light, the feeling that holds moments together.

Artist Statement‍ ‍
“My work is found and formed at the intersection of what I see and how I feel.”

Visually and viscerally I explore the expression of two worlds at once, my inner world and the natural world around me. Holding and expressing the tension of opposites includes where I am and where I want to be, who I was and who I am, who I am and who I want to be etc.. The list goes on, truth be told, I believe it never ends.  My work is my way of finding harmony between these perspectives.

        My paintings reflect how I have been a life-long musician and my work is where I explore the delicate dance between what is spoken and what is held back. Due to the gift of synesthesia, my own senses continue to inform how to bring my inner world into outer form. This leads me to ask myself certain questions again and again. How can I paint the pictures I see and feel so vividly in my mind when I play guitar? How can I alchemize the creative instinct into something that feels good and invites me to look at it again and again? How can I tell a story in one frame? My hope is that every piece I create answers those questions with simplicity, beauty, and a sense of calm as I bring my inner world outside.