Jessie Donovan
Jessie is a St. Louis-based artist and the founder of Fieldmark Print Co. Her work documents native plants and ecology through illustration and printmaking, focusing on how we identify and organize our understanding of the natural world.
By slowing down to look and learn about the world around us, she examines how the way we label and categorize the natural world shapes our perception of it, using her studio practice to document these native landscapes.
Through both her studio practice and her hiking group, ShowMe Hikes, she invites others to slow down and build a deeper relationship with the places they call home.
Annie Killeen
Annie’s artwork goes bold with color and geometric forms. She studied art at Washington University and can be found painting in the Killeen Studio building on Salena Street in Benton Park.
James Spell
James is a Contemporary painter who works in acrylic, oils, and mixed media to express the often-unspoken nuances and complexities of life through abstract impressionism. A transplant from Texas and raised in Saint Louis, James has been painting since 2002 but began his professional art career in 2020. He has a bachelor of art history degree from UM-St Louis and graduate credits in architecture from Washington University.
My non-representative landscape art involves investigating the interplay between active and passive spaces through repetitive form, color, and texture to strike a balance of calmness and dynamism somewhere between non-objective abstract impressionism and pixel art.
While painting landscapes, I take inspiration from memories and experiences of places and events in my life and communicate them abstractly to facilitate the intimate, personal, emotional connections between the artist and viewer, translating the joy and beauty of nature without worry of objective form.
In crafting my compositions, I focus on strong impasto textures created with a palette knife and other tools, with a heavy attention to texture and detail, so that each piece becomes a continuous act of discovery, where the nature of the paintings changes, depending on lighting, distance, and even touch.
