CANOPY
A dappled partition of light falls from a breathing ceiling. Enormous arched ribs hold up needly, leafy greens, evoking the oldest and purest principles of Gothic architecture. Light and shadow tangle and ultimately seep into one another — a watercolor tapestry that...
the tidal sway of my creative process
The tidal sway of my creative process instills a rhythm that I feel in my bones and know quite intimately. For me, the creative process is akin to the tidal rhythm of the sea. It has power and grace and movement in its cyclical dance. It goes out way beyond my line of...
stepping into the creative realm
Stepping into the creative realm is always a journey that provides the chance to unearth a discovery. It is this journeying that I do every time I create a painting. This trip grants me access to a certain spaciousness to explore things around me. It grants me an...
Interview with milehimodern
Recent Interview with milehimodern "The fleeting simplicity of seasonal beauty is the basis of inspiration for artists across the globe — and the resulting work is exemplary of each individual’s relationship with the earth. For Jessica Loving, that relationship is...
Tenet Podcast: ‘Creativepreneurs’
Tenet Podcast: Creativepreneurs, episode 062 Be sure to check out Tenet, the podcast I was featured on! This episode, Wes and Todd talk with artboss Co-Founders, Julia Rymer Brucker & Jessica Loving-Campos. They discuss how artboss came about, art schools and...
A Journey into the Desert
A Journey to the Desert There are places I go when I need to refill my cup. Places that feed me, reignite my creative energy; places that create movement in the deep well of creation. I often find myself in the desert in these times when I need to be recharged. As one...
Baby Steps back to my Practice
Baby Steps back to my Practice 2021 started off with a wondrous bang in our household, as two new babies joined our family eight weeks earlier than expected. As a planner, I had a plan leading up to this time. To finish up projects, to paint a bit and then, only then,...
Painting Demo with Denver Art Museum
Painting Demo in partnership with the Denver Art Museum The Denver Art Museum featured my step-by-step art demo on their site and I would love to share this with you! It was such a fun project. In this demo, I share the many steps that go into building one of my mixed...
Creation Mode
Creation Mode I’ve been bathing in this state of creation over the last few months. After all, I am carrying twin boys. Their tiny forms are growing and changing with each passing day, safely tucked within my womb. My body is busy — busy beyond what I am aware of,...
Featured Interview with Denver Art Museum
Featured Interview with Denver Art Museum Super grateful for the chance to be interviewed by the Denver Art Museum. I hope you will enjoy a quick snippet of the interview, below. The entire interview can be found on the Denver Art Museum's website. Your technique and...
No Beginning. No End.
No Beginning. No End. This statement captures the ideas behind a recent collaboration with artist, Rachel Doniger. No Beginning, No End is a painted diptych paper relief that will be a part of the 2020 Pink Progression: Collaborations show at the Arvada Center....
A Silver Thread
A Silver Thread A silver thread glimmers in the distance; a tiny reflection in a vast space of unknown rock mazes and labyrinths that remain possibly nameless and certainly without people. Perhaps for entire seasons, these canyons remain empty and out of reach; no...
Into the desert
Into the Desert I find that traveling to remote areas, nestled in a wild and wonderful wilderness, often fuels my work, experience and overall well-being. It is this feeling of being small and nestled amidst the most magical of things that I often pull from when...
Cielo: a new series
Cielo: a new series A new series has been emerging — patient, steady, sure-footed and yet, unrelenting. This is how it happens: how a new body of work takes shape. Obsession becomes a forceful member in the creation process —pushing its broad shoulders into the...
A meditation.
A meditation. Color. So undiluted and pure and punctuating that one can nearly taste it on the very tip of their tongue. Hue. Swimming with complexity, gently tinting the light as it swirls invisibly around the room, leaving a delicate glow in the air, staining...
Fresh from the dark
Fresh from the Dark It always happens at the beginning. When I’m working on an all new body of work for a show; the deadline marked neatly on a calendar, several months ahead. I find myself staring into an abyss; darkness all around me — a great and yawning chasm...
A Day in the Life of a Creative: Jessica Loving
A Day in the Life of a Creative: Jessica Loving At the start of 2018, I partnered up with fellow artist Julia Rymer and we excitedly launched the all new business, artboss. artboss seeks to inspire and ignite business growth in creatives and makers of all stripes. And...
De/Constructing Landscape
De/Constructing Landscape My process is based around that of my intuition, which means I quite often have no idea where a painting is going to end up. It’s a bit of a ride; one of which I have tried to guide but each time I do, I notice how little control I truly...
I painted over a painting, today.
I painted over a painting, today. Today, I painted over a painting. It happens from time to time; I recycle a piece to create something better. Typically, I will paint over something that just never ended up being successful in my mind. It fell short of an idea or...
A process, documented.
A process, documented. How do you document a meditative practice if not for moments of bright lucidity? My practice of painting doesn’t not exist in the cerebral space, often. Perhaps it might start there, but the journey always takes me somewhere else entirely. It is...
Creative Solitude
Creative Solitude The all too necessary (momentary) sabbatical post-show It’s become a bit of a habit. That is, taking the time to pause after toiling in the studio leading up to an exhibition. Before a show, my pulse is quickened. Perpetually. I’m a bit frantic....
An ode to gallerists and curators
An ode to gallerists and curators A ‘thank you’ must be uttered to a group of people with whom I carry such profound gratitude. These people have graciously given me opportunities to pursue my career as an artist. Without their support, showing my work would be...
A few of my favorite things
A Few of my Favorite Things Opening a fresh tube of paint. The elegance of newly stretched and primed canvas, awaiting the very first mark. The magic that happens when I leave a painting overnight: it somehow looks different in the morning, and I’m unsure why....
Meet my studio floor
Meet my Studio Floor Often, when I have studio visitors, a comment is uttered about my studio floor. It is a concrete floor in my garage; before we bought our home, it was an anemic gray that you’ve seen too many times to recall — punctuated by the occasional crack;...
A new direction
A New Direction I've been busy working on paintings for my summer show, Bloom. I’ve had this vision… this idea of color and line for a few months now. I've felt it — it comes into my dreams — it visits me in both sleeping and wakeful moments. After creating two shows...
New site, new blog
New Site, New Blog Thank you for checking out my site. I will be adding content to my blog on a fairly regular basis and would love to share it with you. Expect a little background. A story. There’s this dynamic; that is, a push and pull of things around me that often...