Janessa recently graduated from Pacific Northwest College of Art in
Portland, Oregon on May 22nd, 2011. She received her Bachelors of Fine Arts Degree
with a major in Illustration.
She transfered to PNCA with her Associates in Visual Arts Degree in which she received in Bend, Oregon at Central Oregon Community College. Before moving to Portland in September of 2008 she had been living in Bend, OR for the greater part of her teenage years. Her younger growing years she spent living in Southwest Montana.
Many of her inspirations and creative habits have come from her lifestyle and surroundings. Janessas Fine Art, Illustration, Fashion Design, and Print ideas are all influenced by the flora and fauna that we are surrounded by. She grew up in the wilderness, her passion is in snowboarding, and being surrounded and involved in the mountains, where she is engulfed by the beauty of a large and vast atmosphere. A lot of her ideas are driven from the passion of lifestyles that are connected to the outdoors and the fashion of the seasons that drive them. The motivating force behind any painting she creates is exposed through colors that remind her of a feeling or memory, the reflective animal symbolism, and the environmental aura empowered by the subject. Her work is meant to inspire, influence, and connect the viewer to the outer beauty of our world that we cannot alway witness and be engulfed by everyday. Janessas artwork also shows the co-existance between fashion and how we use the natural world in art and design to expres
our energy, appearance, passions, and lifestyle.
Exhibitions & Publications:
Solo Artshow: Velvet Lounge Bend, OR February 2012
Screen Print: Holiday Art Sale Postcard, November 2011
Senior Group Show: PNCA Thesis Exhibition-May 2011
"Eye Shadow Motif" Illustration: PNCA Illustration Juried Show-2010
Aurora" Borealis" Painting: PNCA BFA Juried Exhibition-April, 2010
Illustration: PNCA Holiday Art Sale Poster, November, 2009
Artwork feature: PNCA Centennial Poster,100 years of art & design poster-May 2009
Cover Illustration: The Source weekly-Issue 20, 2007
