From an early age, Jessica was encouraged to inquire and document life, to explore and then explain. This sort of upbringing created a safe-place for creativity. It wasn’t until college that Jessica began to explore what it means to go beyond creativity as a mind-set and start to think of art-making as a life style. In 2006 she graduated from Taylor University with a BA in studio art and concentrations in painting and drawing.
Upon graduating, she moved to Chicago where she worked as an high school art teacher, graphic designer for a book publishing company, and opened an art and vintage furniture shop. Amidst these other creative venues, she realized a desire to focus on her fine art .
Most recently, Jessica is lives in Wheaton, Illinois with her husband. She has a studio in the basement where she works with oil, wax and collage and explores concepts of process, the way one experience opens into the next, and interaction between objects depending on their placement.
