ABOUT JESSAMY
Jessamy is UK-based illustrator and landscape artist, working in watercolour and gouache. She is interested in connecting drawing with poetry and
literature, as well as using illustration to document her experience of a landscape.
Her paintings express a sense of place through line, texture, and colour, drawing on the British countryside. From patterns of fields, trees, and hedgerows, to the unique rock formations along the coast and in the mountains. She hopes to engage the viewer with the landscape as she experiences it, basing much of her work on drawing and painting on location.
Jessamy is the illustrator for three children's non-fiction books published by DK: 'Explorers' written by Nellie Huang, 'Inventors' written by Robert Winston, and 'Scientists' written by Isabel Thomas.
She is also the founder of Griefscapes, an online space linking landscape and loss through illustration. If you'd like to read more about the Griefscapes project, click here.
Recent clients include DK Books, Batsford Press, and Rowen and Wren, as well as various private commissions.
DRAWING ON THE PEMBROKESHIRE COAST
PHOTO BY KATE JENKINS
UK STOCKISTS
Paintings can be bought direct from my online shop and are also available for sale at Seasons Green (Corfe Castle, Dorset), Grange Gallery (Wareham, Dorset), Folde (Shaftesbury, Dorset).
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
2022 Open Studio, Purbeck Art Weeks, Dorset
2022 Rollington Barn Exhibition, Purbeck Art Weeks, Dorset
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
2021 Open Studio, Purbeck Art Weeks, Dorset
2021 Rollington Barn Exhibition, Purbeck Art Weeks, Dorset
2021 Artists Advent Online Exhibition, Two Artist at Home
2020 Rollington Barn Exhibition, Purbeck Art Weeks, Dorset - (Cancelled due to Covid)
2020 Open Studio, Purbeck Art Weeks, Dorset - (Cancelled due to Covid)
2020 Miniature Masterpiece Exhibition, The Edition
2019 Florals and Foliage Exhibition, The Edition
2019 The River and The Sea Exhibition, The Edition
2019 Rollington Barn Exhibition, Purbeck Art Weeks, Dorset
2019 Open Studio, Purbeck Art Weeks, Dorset
2018 Paintings for sale in Season's Green, Corfe Castle, Dorset
2018 Paintings for sale in Season's Green, Corfe Castle, Dorset
2018 Boilerhouse Gallery Christmas Market, Corfe Castle, Dorset
2018 Makers of Lovely Things Christmas Market, Telferscot Primary School, Balham
2018 Summer Guest Artist Exhibition, Purbeck New Wave Gallery, Swanage, Dorset
2018 Rollington Barn, Purbeck Art Weeks, Dorset
2018 Guest Illustrator, Sketch Event, RSPB Arne Nature Reserve, Dorset
2018 Bologna Children's Book Fair, Bologna, Italy
2018 Joint Exhibition, Purbeck Artisan Yard, Wareham
2018 The Tree and The Spire, Solo Exhibition, The Jam Factory, Oxford
AWARDS
2020 Shortlisted for the 2021 Blue Peter Book Awards, for Best Book with Facts
2017 Runner-up for Little White Lies Creative Brief Competition, with illustrated magazine cover
2016 Shortlisted and Highly Commended for the V&A Student Illustrator of the Year Award
2008 Winner of Pink Pig Sketchbook Award
BOOKS AND RECENT PUBLICATIONS
2020 Illustrator for children's book 'Inventors', published by DK and written by Nellie Huang
2019 Illustrator for children's book 'Explorers', published by DK and written by Nellie Huang
2019 Book jacket illustration for 'Songs for the Elephant Man', published by Mantle Arts
2018 Illustration for 'Home' podcast on 'Verbal Remedy'
2018 Featured in Dorset Magazine, May edition
2018 Chapter illustrations for #MeToo Anthology, edited by Deborah Alma, published by Fairacre Press
2018 Book jacket illustration for 'The Music Maker', published by Mantle Arts
2017 Book jacket illustration for 'Mrs Rochester's Attic', published by Mantle Arts
2017 5 Illustrations published in 'Do What You Want' Zine, edited by Ruby Tandoh
IN THE PRESS
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Featured in Stylist: ''5 women who travel for work share their tips on escaping the home office' to read click here
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Shortlisted for the Blue Peter 2021 Book Awards for Best Book for Facts - read here
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Little White Lies - Featured as a Runner-up for Little White Lies Creative Brief Competition, to read click here
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Jacksons Art Blog - an interview by Lisa Takahashi about my V&A shortlisted illustration, my process, and my experience on my MA at Kingston University. The interview can be read here
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Digital Arts Online - My illustration 'The Clearing' was showcased alongside the 13 other shortlisted works on the Digital Arts Online website
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The Independent - Coverage of the V&A Illustration Awards shortlist which can be viewed here
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- V&A Blog - Interviews with the V&A judges of Student Illustrator of the Year award, about the five student entrants, which can be viewed here. My shortlisted illustration 'The Clearing' was praised for its 'wonderful way with colour and an almost filmic use of perspective and angles'
