Jessica trained in jewellery and enamel at Central School of Art, London. After graduation, she established a studio in Bristol, England, and now divides her time between studio practice and teaching. Her award winning work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. 

Building on her training in traditional enamelling techniques Jessica has developed a more unconventional approach to enamel which is underpinned by ongoing research into mark making techniques. This approach, combined with investigations into printmaking techniques for enamel, formed the focus of her postgraduate study at UWE, Bristol. In 2010 Jessica completed a three year AHRC Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts based at the University of the West of England. The focus of the fellowship, entitled Innovation in Vitreous Enamel Surfaces in Jewellery, was the place of enamel within contemporary jewellery practice. 

I work with vitreous enamel to create surfaces produced through repetitive mark-making processes. I test and respond to the subtle nuances that come with the micro-decisions I make as I work. The miniaturized format of the jewellery form allows me to explore my ideas on an intimate scale and my aim is to create jewellery that rewards close attention with an intricate and detailed surface. 
 
Deliberately rejecting enamel’s more conventional characteristics of shine and colour in favour of a more nuanced and ambiguous surface, I have developed new ways of working with it that give the jewellery a particular tactile delicacy. 
 
My most recent work is an exploration into formal notions of composition, edge, line and negative space. I reference man-made agricultural landscapes, architecture and cityscapes in small, intimate, wearable objects. I work in series, each group developing out of observations I have made about previous work. This attentive contemplation allows me to stay alert to the unexpected.