I am an artist elder, raised in Fife, Scotland, among glens, moorlands, and coastline.
Early immersion in land attuned me to subtle energetic shifts, deepened through decades of shamanic practice, therapeutic work, and holding healing spaces.
This embodied awareness informs each decision within my work.

Before painting, I cultivate stillness through meditation, contemplation, and time in nature.
Marks arise as elemental symbols — glyph-like forms shaped by breath, impulse, and conscious attention.
Each line, curve, and shape is deliberate, expressing the non-verbal and shaping the energetic tone of the room.
Colour carries its own frequency; shapes resonate with presence.
Together, the work forms a quiet, sacred landscape — viewers often say they experience peace.

Peace Medicine: The Art of Self-Reflection
Brushstrokes — on canvas, paper, and walls — oil, acrylic, house paint, watercolour.
Emerald green lines travel across corners and thresholds; cobalt blue forms rest within open white fields.
Planes, rectangles, and curves unfold slowly. Layers accumulate, suspend time, and stillness becomes an experience.

Where art meets presence — a path to stillness, reflection, and awakening.

About Jessica

About the Artwork

My practice, The Art of Self-Reflection: Peace Medicine, approaches placement as ceremonial.
Works are positioned in relation to light and architecture, so that paintings become altars and contemporary sacred sites— spaces for reflection, meditation, and attunement, supported by ceremonies I hold within them.

Brushstrokes, colour, and form are deliberate expressions of presence.
Emerald green lines, cobalt blue shapes, and elemental symbols create quiet, sacred landscapes.
Together, the work invites viewers to experience stillness, reflection, and connection.

I live and work in rural Somerset, in the mythic landscape of Avalon, where land and practice remain inseparable.

Jessica’s Bio

Jessica is a multi-disciplinary artist, with a practice spanning decades — from childhood to motherhood and now as an elder.
In 1992, she attended St Martins Art College, London, studying Fine Art, and the London College of Communicationin 2009, studying Fine Art Photography.
She has exhibited alongside contemporary artists including Sarah Lucas, Vivienne Dick, and David Shrigley, has two self-published books in the Arts Council England library, and is collected and exhibited internationally.

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Experience & Exibhitions

  • 2009
— London College of Communication, London, England, UK – Master of Arts in Fine Art photography

    1995 — Central St Martins School of Art and Design, London, England, UK – Diploma in Photography

    1995 — Central St Martins School of Art and Design, London, England – Bachelor of Arts in Critical Fine Art Practice

    1991 — Sir John Cass School of Art, London, England – Foundation Course

  • Shamanic & Body work Training

    Spirit of the Inca,school of Shamanic Energy medicine, UK  -Shamanic Medicine Wheel Training and member of staff 2016 – ongoing

    TRE (tension & trauma release exercise) certified provider 2013

  • 2023  Green Medicine No6 bruton High street, Somerset

    2002 The Longest Day, St Agnes Gallery, London.   

    1998 Bombs Over Camden, The Murray Arms, London.

  • 2023   Light years Ahead, A survey of Earth Guardianship, curated by Alison Mc Kenna,  John Marchant gallery, Brighton & Leicester gallery, De Montfort university, Leicester

    2021 Inside Art: Cell 5 & 6 Somerset arts week, curated by Luminara Florescu, Shepton Mallet Prison, Somerset

    2022 Wells Art Contemporary Open. Curated by Simon Periton, Wells, Somerset

    2019  The New Walsall Art Gallery – 4 Bed Detached Home Of Metal - curated by Alan     Kane

    2014     Nearnothing, 2014Frames, Glasgow International Festival.

    Self published book, Notebook 2014

    2013    The London group Open, The Cello Factory, London

    Take me out, Art projects- Limoncello Gallery, The London Art fair

    The Photobook Show E, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton

    The Lindt Big Egg hunt, Uk

    2012 Self published book, Notebook.

    Young British Art 11, Dienstgebaude Gallery, Zurich

    2011 Brighton Photo Fringe Open 11’ Phoenix Gallery, Brighton selected by Charlotte Cotton                   

    Waterline, Waterfront Gallery, University of Suffolk: Judges selected prize winner

    Nomination Bar Tur Award & Exhibition, London

    The Edge of Extinction, Lo & Behold Gallery, London

    Young British Art, Limoncello Gallery, London curated by Matt Williamson

    Just Photography, Martos Gallery, New York

    2010 Salon Show, Four Corners, London

    Shoebox awards, (runner up) Oblong Gallery, London

    Punctuation program, Limoncello gallery, London

    SHOW Macandi Showroom, London

    2009   MA Show, London College of Communication.

    Travelling Light, Wilson Williams Gallery, London and Venice (exh. cat.)

    Interim Show, Well Gallery, LCC, London

    2004 Group Shows are a Waste of Time, Macbeth, London.

    1997 Peripheral Vision,De Fabriiek, Eindhoven, Holland.

    1996Kiss This, Focal Point Gallery, Southend on Sea, Uk

    1995After The Sublime( Landscape in Contemporary Photography) Cambridge Darkroom, Cambridge, Harewood house, Leeds. Angel Row gallery, Nottingham.

    1994Out of This World,The Cambridge Darkroom, Cambridge.Item description

  • 2010 Photo Imaging Network, Four Corners, London`

    2009 Sproxton Photographic Award (Selected by Peter Ainsworth & Charlotte Cotton)

  • British Council Visual Arts Library

    Private Collections

  • 2022 Pecha Kuchan - Silo Talks, Shatwell Farm, Somerset, UK

    2010 Photoforum Talk, Four Corners, London. UK

    Artist talk & Teaching The London Met University, MA Photography, Uk

    2009 The photograph as Object, The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, Uk