About

I am an artist based in Somerset, close to the Dorset borders and coastline.  Inspired by the landscape around me and exploring my place within that. I translate my constant documentation of sights, sounds and emotional experiences into further paintings and developed drawings in my studio.

Land, Sea and Sky. Moon, Time and Tide.

Practicing a curiosity of the natural world, alongside an urge to paint, draw and photograph, I am compelled to explore the landscape around me through art making.  I use mixed media, predominantly acrylics, watercolour and ink, working both figuratively and in an abstract style.   I experiment with my colour palette expressively and emotionally but often trying to capture the essence of what I have been recording in my sketches, studies and photographs.  I want to evoke that outdoor experience in my work and to connect that with the viewer. 

I often look to the distant  horizon as a place of calm and reassurance and I am drawn to the influence of land, sea and sky on human wellbeing.  I am tentatively studying the relationship between nature's influence on us, and how we are nature ourselves, and how I can take that into the solace I also receive from art making; from painting large expressive artworks through to calm and precise drawings made to mark time and mindful moments.  Sometimes my work takes the form of Grids and I have a monthly date with the Moon

I am a constant student, every painting, photograph and excursion holds something new to learn. 

If you would like to know more about my work, processes and inspirations, please get in touch follow me for more regular updates and observations on Instagram @jess.egan.art

- Yeovil Creatives Member (Yeovil Art Space) 2018 - current

- Somerset Art Works Member 2019 - current

- Caravan Residency - Combe Martin - 2026

- Beach Hut Residency - Lyme Regis - 2022 - 2026

- Somerset Open Studios at Yeovil Art Space with Carolyn Lefley - 2025

- Somerset Open Studios at Yeovil Art Space Yeovil Creatives Shows 2021/23/24

- Time and Tide Solo Exhibition at The Octagon Theatre, Yeovil, 2022

- Exhibiting with Somerset Reacquainted group 2021/22

- Lead for Wellbeing Art Group at Yeovil Art Space 2023 - current

- Lead on Art For Memory with Dorchester Arts 2022 - 2023

- Creative Pathways Bursary Artist 2020/21 with Somerset Art Works.  

- YAS Community Art School Associate - Programme funded by Arts Council England 2021/22

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Articles:

Artist Materials policy click to read pdf -Research Into Vegan Art Materials  

Yeovil Creatives - Yeovil Art Space

Press:

Interview SomersetShines - Jess talks art!

Artist At Work - Sherborne Times June 2021 Issuu Page 8-9