I'm Jess, an artist and writer.

I started off my career in graphic design, marketing, digital illustration, and copywriting. But the siren songs of paper, pencil, paint, and brush have been drifting on the wind for a while, now, and I'm embarking on a journey to rediscovering the love I had as a small fry for making "analog" art. 

I'm crazy-lucky to make my home in Connecticut, USA, where the Connecticut River meets Long Island Sound. We have meadows, rocky shores, sandy beaches, orchards, forests—no end of interesting places to explore and things to observe. I'm also crazy-lucky to share that home with a most excellent husband and kiddo (affectionately known online as "The Hubs" and "The Widget"), plus three weirdo cats: Shmoo, Marple, and Marilla.

I work with a variety of media: watercolor and gouache, colored pencil, ink, block printing, collage, multi-media work, assemblage art, and pretty much anything else I can get my hands on. My work ranges from traditional to quirky, but all of it is connected to a sense of insatiable curiosity and an eclectic creativity. 

My artistic odyssey is largely inspired by the natural world humming around me—from bugs and grasses to moss and birds, from rocks and fungi to clouds and shells. But I also love to travel. Whenever I have the opportunity, I explore new places—be it a whole new country, or a local road I've never been down. And I'm rarely happier than when I can combine art and travel together, documenting my journeys through sketches and jotted remembrances in a travel art journal, or creating larger-scaled works based on images from my trips.

In addition to making art, I love teaching art, and am delighted to be a member of the faculty for Lyme Art Association's online illustration program.

I'm also one of the contributing artists for the Florence Griswold  Museum's annual Wee Faerie Village event—a phenomenally fun outdoor assemblage art exhibit featuring a wide variety of imaginative artists and their interpretations of each year's new fairy village theme.