Jessica Shirley

Location: US Web: www.jessicashirleyart.com Email: jessica.m.shirley@gmail.com media: Acrylic, oils Jessica studied illustration at Brigham Young University and more recently at SmArt School. “I’ve always been fascinated by the strangeness of myths and fairy tales,” she says, “so I love making moments you can’t exactly find in ordinary life. I’m attracted to the melancholy, the romantic, the strange, and the beautiful, which hopefully comes through in my work.”

She tries to make the underdrawing beautiful and let it carry through in the finished piece. “I also love shape making, adding graphic elements and incorporating flow. I’m forever compelled to pull out images from my mind, trying to distil them on to paper.”