About

I have been sensitive to subtle shifts in experience since childhood.

I grew up in landscapes where listening was essential—where I learned early to notice what was not being said as much as what was.

In 1980, as a young woman, I was struck by lightning.

That threshold cracked me open. It deepened a way of perceiving that was already present and set me on a path I didn't fully understand for many years.

Over the following decades, I immersed myself in shamanic training—first as a student, then as a practitioner. What began as a path of learning became a way of living, of seeing, and of listening to what moves beneath the surface of ordinary life.

Now the form my practice takes is painting.

The shamanic training lives in me. The lightning lives in me. Thirty years of deep listening, threshold-crossing, and initiation—all of it lives in the work.

I live and work in Somerset, in a landscape that shapes my attention daily. Time in nature—walking, swimming, lying on the earth—is as essential to my practice as painting itself.

In early 2025, while my mother was dying, thirteen paintings arrived.

They came from a place I call the Cave of Symbols—an inner landscape I have been listening to for decades. They emerged through deep attunement, through presence, and through the willingness to allow form to arise without forcing it.

I paint using oil and house paint on canvas, linen, and directly onto walls. My work is minimal and precise, built through attention to colour, line, and space.

These paintings are contemporary sanctuaries.

They hold stillness in the way ancient sacred sites do. They ask to be experienced, felt in the body, and met with presence.

People who spend time with them often speak of clarity, presence, and subtle shifts they feel within themselves.

They are not asking to be understood. They are asking to be experienced.

This is work made through deep listening—where years of inner work become visible through material, colour, and form.

For inquiries about original paintings, commissions, or studio meditations:

make contact with Jessica

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