Genola de Jong’s paintings draw inspiration from her exotic travels, resulting in a culmination of beauty, sensuality and opulence.

De Jong was born in 1967 of Australian and Dutch nationality and spent her childhood sailing and living around Australia, the South Pacific islands and Europe.

She graduated from City Art Institute ( College Of Fine Arts) in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in painting. She then resumed her trans-continental adventures, living and painting in France, Greece and The Cook Islands with travels across Europe, India and Egypt.

Genola now divides her time between painting on the idyllic Fijian island of Malolo Lailai, Byron Bay and Sydney’s Chinaman’s Beach. She also travels extensively and presents with her brothers on Lifestyle Channel’s fishing show, ‘Sports Fishing International’.

De Jong’s distinctive paintings reflect her passion for the sensual and exotic. Her romantic images of languid women are draped in intricately patterned fabrics inspired by flamboyant botanica, Oriental, Middle Eastern and French textiles.

These fluidly painted figures and lush still lifes of fruit , flowers, insects and animals, create a heady vision of romanticism, sensuality and decoration – highly evocative of the French and Oriental aesthetic.

Genola de Jong is widely collected all over the world and has exhibited in Sydney, Byron Bay, Mykonos, Athens, Hawaii and Fiji.