Having been raised on the Monterey Peninsula and spending her teenage years living in Carmel, California, instilled in Jessica a great love of the natural world and a compelling need to record the beauty of the California landscape. After graduating from high school, Jessica relocated to San Francisco and enrolled in San Francisco State University to study painting. She graduated from the university in 2001, earning a Bachelor of Arts Degree with an emphasis in painting.
Jessica's great love of the natural world provides her with an endless amount of inspiration for her artwork. She finds great joy in the process of painting, sometimes leaving thick areas of paint in certain places on the canvas which creates texture in her work. Painting mostly in oil paint in her studio in Southern California, she uses reference photographs which she takes herself on location.
In 2004, Jessica moved to Southern California to enjoy the sunshine and the beaches of this beautiful region. Since 2005, she has been working at the breathtaking Getty Villa Museum in Malibu, where she is a museum operations manager. This has allowed her to be in daily contact with some of the most impressive artwork ever created. Being able to peruse the galleries daily and appreciate the great works of art on a closeup and personal level has made her own work more rich and varied. Being able to contribute to arts awareness and arts education through her work at the Getty has enriched Jessica's life greatly.
Jessica has been featured in multiple publications, including in the September, 2018 issue of Victoria magazine, where her artwork was featured in their "Favorite Things" column. Jessica has been a member of the Malibu Art Association since 2021. She has been selling her artwork online and in galleries for several years, being collected in private collections throughout the United States and France.
