Novice

Jess, a Dublin native and member of the Minaw Collective, whose work is a mixture of the mediums that she loves, pencil, Photoshop and paint. On paper she illustrations featuring sayings that make her smile and drawings that challenge her skill while exploring what colour can do.

The work she creates on walls feature large faces, which lately have become more stylised. Jess likes to design these pieces using photoshops many features and filters to manipulate and over produce photos combining them with other textures in a digital collage design. The designs are then applied to walls using spray paint.

Hailing from a very creative family, Jess spent 2 years in BCFE in Dublin, graduated from the National College of Art and design with a Hons degree in Ceramic Design and a Post grad in Community Art education.

Although Jess has spent her life with a pencil in her hand she gave herself the street artist name of Novice. This is for two reasons. One was because when she chose a street art name, she was very new to the medium and scale. And two because as a creative person (and human) she believes in having to always be a novice, always learning, always discovering. Jess maintains that the longer she creates art the more she feels the need to learn or thinks that may be what getting older & wiser does to you.