About Jes

 I am Jes and I am an artist, art lover and art educator living in Spring, Texas, which is a northwest suburb of Houston. I have been teaching middle school art for over 15 years and as a result I have learned a heck of a lot and have explored many different mediums with my students. This opportunity of continual exposure to a variety of mediums has led my art practice to be incredibly varied in materials. I work with oil, acrylic, gouache, and watercolor paints as well as colored pencil, graphite, markers and ink.

I fluctuate between different mediums based on my mood and the intent of the artwork and I sometimes combine multiple materials in my artworks. My in-home studio was once a dining room, but has the most delicious afternoon light that streams in the windows and is perfect for painting. I am absolutely and positively devoted to art and I delight in collecting the work of other artists.

I have a strong connection to and appreciation of writing and in particular poetry and song lyrics. I will sometimes include text that resonates with me within my pieces. I myself am not a weaver of words and I swoon over the way the right combination of text can softly settle deep within my bones, creating warmth and recognition within my soul. 

I study people and I paint people. I do a lot of watching and observing, noticing delicate color shifts,textures and the way the light falls. Faces and expressions are fascinating, and with every painting I fight towards recreating the radiance and glow of the human spirit and the story of the moment. I take a lot of photos, a whole lot of them actually, and work many of my paintings off of these collected images.