About

Jessica studied Fine Art at Lancaster University and has worked
in Art Education for over a decade, gaining a Masters in Education from
The University of Cambridge. She works from the studio at the end of her garden
in Kings Heath, West Midlands, and has recently had her second child. Becoming
a family and navigating Matrescence has inspired a return to her love of
painting after many years.

Jessica's work is characterised by her love of paint
textures, layers and chance effects. This is sometimes seen through her use of
thin, translucent and hazy paint, built up over days, and sometimes through
dynamic, impasto, scraped and gestural paint. She loves curating careful colour
pallets that are usually grounded in earthy tones, often with splashes of
brightness.

Jessica believes that everybody deserves to live and work in
a beautiful environment. Art has the capacity to change the feeling of
interiors and add calm, colour, scale and texture to a space.

Jessica's most recent collection 'Spring’ has been inspired
by Liz Berry’s poem The Republic of Motherhood. In the poem, Berry
describes the wild, early days of motherhood, contrasting raw emotion against
normal activities such as pushing her pram 'through freeze and blossom' and
queuing at the 'weighing clinic'.  The feeling of hope that swells when
she finishes the poem, describing 'sunlight pixelating (her) face like a
kaleidoscope' suggests positivity and that the season is turning to Spring, a
time for new beginnings and potential. Selected pieces from this Collection are
currently being exhibited in nook Gallery, Kings Heath.