![]() ![]() Why ‘HighBrow Hippie’? Well, to sum it up, I’m a questioner of the status quo but also a lover of tradition a free spirit but entirely too snobby about my sheets to have participated in Woodstock ) Authenticity is important to me- loving things truly for their own sake, not for the image they create or the box they help you fit within. I think we may end up back there someday- hopefully with a goat or 2. ![]() It’s completely charming but there are days I’m restless for the wide open spaces of the North Carolina countryside where I grew up. I work out of my little home studio in our 1941 cottage in one of those old, middle-of-the-city neighborhoods. I live in Greensboro, NC with my husband Joel & our cat Britin. It’s both how I paint & how I want to live. To me, watercolor is grace, faith & boldness in one. I love this medium because of its wildness- the tension of suspended pigment in water the balance of control & chaos. I had fallen in love with watercolor in art school & it felt like coming home to pick up those brushes again. The uncertainty of art as a career scared me, but I could no longer deny that this is my calling so, in faith, I walked away from the career path I had followed from furniture to linens to boutique sales and started HighBrow Hippie in the fall of 2016. ![]() After college, ten years of various jobs & a masters degree brought me right back to where I started as a child: art. Watercolor is my specialty.īeing an artist isn’t something you choose, it’s who you are & I took the long route to discover you can’t be someone else even if you try. Hello there! I’m Jessica & I’m a fine artist & business owner living in Greensboro, North Carolina. ![]()
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