Jessie Higginson is an artist-maker, based in Penryn, Cornwall. Jessie works across the mediums of print, craft, painting and collage. Her recent work is focused on line, exploring line as texture, pattern and form. Her abstract prints, collages and constructions are process driven, often meditative, using repetitive slow techniques and the energy and order of repeated shape to give rhythm to a piece. Jessie works with multiple overlaid layers, using colour and line variation to describe volume and spatial depth, balancing overall composition with the joy of small tonal details. Recent constructions take Jessie’s printed line into a physical form, which mounted off the wall use shadow to add another layer of line drawing.
From 1996 – 2002 Jessie ran a ceramics practice, focused on functional, small batch production porcelain. Jessie hand slip-cast a series of vases and vessels, in minimal, sculptural forms. The work was highly finished with graphic surface qualities, using inlay, slips and glaze to create texture, pattern and subtle tones. Jessie's work was sold internationally at galleries and design stores across the UK as well as America and Japan. Later work at the Royal College of Art was more focused on surface pattern, learning print skills and developing rich multi-layered imagery, working on both large scale tiles and on paper. Between 2004 - 2008 Jessie worked on collections of screen-prints alongside teaching ceramics at BA level and was subsequently the project manager for Hidden Art Cornwall, supporting designer-makers in Cornwall. Her early career was supported with funding from The Crafts Council and The Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust and Arts Council South West.
Jessie studied on the MA Ceramics at The Royal College of Art from 2002 - 2004 and the BA Wood, Metal, Plastics, Ceramics at Brighton University 1992 - 1996.