Bio for Website: Jess’s work lives at the crossroads of the ethereal and the emotional — a visual language born from dreams, deep feeling, and otherworldly memory. Drawing from her background as a world traveler, veteran, educator, and spiritual seeker, she channels visions that are both intimate and mythic. Her mixed media creations — spanning charcoal, oil, watercolor, pastel, and poetry — invite the viewer into forgotten realms and symbolic landscapes, where divine feminine energy, ancestral echoes, and surreal archetypes converge. Jess embraces a multidimensional creative process. Influenced by the surrealist traditions of Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo, she weaves portals into her work — lionesses, angels, and dancers emerge as both protectors and mirrors. Each piece becomes a reflection of personal transformation and an invitation for collective remembrance. Her art is less about perfection and more about rawness, texture, and soul — she often paints what she cannot yet say aloud. She recently launched her brand, Whispers of Forgotten Worlds, and is currently building a body of work that bridges visual art and the written word. Her debut poetry collection, alongside her growing portfolio of prints and originals, reflects a lifelong devotion to mystery, beauty, and emotional truth. Jess’s mission is to create art that feels like medicine — for herself, for others, and for a world slowly remembering how to feel again.
Materials and Techniques: Her creative process is as much a journey as it is a practice in surrendering to the unknown. For Jess, art is not a linear act; it’s an unfolding, a conversation with the unseen. Drawing from the depths of intuition, each piece begins as a whisper — a fleeting thought or dream that carries emotional weight or a pull toward a certain image. Often, it’s the feeling of a memory — not quite remembered, but deeply felt — that guides the brush, the charcoal, the ink.
Jess works with a blend of mixed media to allow for spontaneity and texture, each material chosen to reflect different facets of the story she’s telling. Charcoal for the raw, the shadowed; oil for depth and emotion; watercolor for fluidity and dreamlike transitions; pastels for softness and nuance. Layer upon layer, she builds her visions, trusting the process to reveal what needs to be seen. Each mark is an expression of what cannot be said in words, each texture an embodiment of emotion and transformation.
Her practice is cyclical, involving moments of deep contemplation, followed by bursts of creation, and often followed by long periods of stepping back, allowing space for the work to breathe. It’s in these pauses that the art speaks, often evolving in unexpected ways. There’s a delicate balance between control and surrender — between intention and instinct. Jess believes that art is a living entity, constantly evolving, much like the self.
Incorporating symbols of the divine feminine, ancestral memories, and surreal archetypes, Jess allows her work to be a portal — a space where the viewer can step into their own journey of discovery. The process of creation is as much about exploration as it is about expression, and every piece she creates is both an invitation and an offering: an offering to herself to uncover new layers, and an invitation to others to explore what’s beneath their own surface.
Her art is a reflection of the multifaceted, ever-evolving experience of being human. It’s both personal and collective — a bridge between the worlds of the seen and unseen
Website: http://visionsbyjess.com
