Hello!

Hello world! I’m Jess, a twenty-one year-old American living in London. I graduated this May from Georgetown University with a Bachelor’s in Economics and Studio Art. I will be spending my 8 months in London pursuing a Graduate Diploma at the Royal College of Art.

Finding them extreme antipodes, I am a painter and a printmaker. Unlike with painting, where my art unfolds with every knife stroke, the beauty in printmaking lies in the blindness of the process. Trying to foster a stylistic identity, I focused on painting with palette knives on small-scale canvases because it challenged me the most, therefore increasing my aptitude towards the intermixture of oil on canvas.

Equally ambitious, as an amateur printmaker, I was drawn towards the unforgiving process of aquatinting because of the level of precision it required in terms of timing and strokes. Pursuing both simultaneously forced me to develop opposing artistic skills: monochrome and color, replication and creativity, precision and impressionism, calculation and improvisation.