Jess Hinsley is a landscape artist based in Bannau Brycheiniog (the Brecon Beacons), Wales. Her work explores her love of nature and wild places. This passion leads her out into the mountains, and flows out through scribbly, expressive marks. Sometimes painting plein air with acrylic paint, sometimes making ink drawings in a sketchbook and painting them up with layers of acrylic in her studio, her use of colour reflects the richness she sees in the landscape. For Jess the mountains are home; a healing place, alive beneath her feet.
Jess grew up on the south coast of England. Her first encounter with mountains was aged 15, in the Lake District, and she was awestruck. Jess found her home in the mountains of Wales in 2017. She was on the path to children’s book illustration when she went travelling, and began sketchbooking everyday. This led to a looser, more natural way of working, and eventually she realised that she was almost exclusively drawing the landscape around her. Jess feels that she is finally working in a way which is integral and authentic to her.
Original paintings are available through the shop or via direct enquiry, and from The Felin Fach Griffin, Brecon
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