It’s often a challenge to put a finger on just what it is about an artist’s work that draws me in.  But in the case of the work of Jessica Bell, I’m pretty sure I can pin it down.  There is something in her visual language that I’m connecting to, something in the way she is communicating leading me down visual pathways into her process.

Maybe it’s the way she plays with color, planes and simple shapes to evoke a certain place or point in time.  Or perhaps it is her use of visual and physical texture in subtle and spare ways.  Or the process of layering only to conceal or reveal as needed.  Whatever it is, there is a richness and complexity to her work that indicates an artist physically working through each composition on canvas.  An organic, evolutionary process that I find so intriguing!  Each piece seems a capturing not just of a work of art but a record of art making.

To see more of Jessica Bell‘s work, please visit her website.

All images via the artist’s website.