About The Author
Painted Pickle
Jess Clark, known as Pickles, has been cultivating her skills and passion for creating art since she could hold a crayon. She has developed into a boundary-defying artist, muralist, educator, and designer who transmutes her thirst for exploration, adventure and understanding in every brush stroke.
Her creative use of materials, upcycled sculptures, and murals draw on the real-life influences and experiences that drive her urge to create. She wields bright colors and vivid imagery to spark curiosity, juxtaposing the mundane with the fantastic.
Clark’s works play on surrealism, spontaneity and abstraction and call out to the world to connect and interact. Clark uses a variety of mediums from inks, aerosol paints,pastels, paint pens, and uv reactive paints to her use of 3-d elements in her provocative and playful pieces. She offers a thoughtful commentary on the human experience through her eyes and encourages spectators to question the world around them and explore new perspectives.
Clark studied at undergrad SUNY Potsdam, NY finished last semester University of Hawaii Studio Arits, Ceramics, and Fine Arts with a Ceramics concentration. Adelphi University for Grad School in Long Island Masters in Art Education K-12 in 2010. Clark has been teaching ages 3 years old to teaching adults since 2008. Clark has taught in private and public school settings, and when she moved to Massachusetts in 2017 she started managing, running, and teaching in a private artist studio in WInchester MA.
Since 2017, Clark has also been the resident scenic designer at a children's theater in Winchester, MA and currently teaches at Newtown Family Access as a preschool art teacher.
Clark is also the resident artist at Soundcheck studios in Pembroke, MA. She lives in Arlington, Massachusetts and teaches drawing, mixed media, painting, photography, media arts, advertising, design, sculpture, stained glass, and media arts all around New England.
Clark is excited to continue to expand her studio and art barn in Vermont where she plans to eventually offer art retreats and workshops. In 2023, Clark partnered to design a logo for a band and then was asked to create an ad in the Grammys Magazine.
She has also sold and displayed art at various galleries in her home state of New York and continues to display and show her work in the greater New England area. Clark has won several local Massachusetts Art competitions.
Her creative use of materials, upcycled sculptures, and murals draw on the real-life influences and experiences that drive her urge to create. She wields bright colors and vivid imagery to spark curiosity, juxtaposing the mundane with the fantastic.
Clark’s works play on surrealism, spontaneity and abstraction and call out to the world to connect and interact. Clark uses a variety of mediums from inks, aerosol paints,pastels, paint pens, and uv reactive paints to her use of 3-d elements in her provocative and playful pieces. She offers a thoughtful commentary on the human experience through her eyes and encourages spectators to question the world around them and explore new perspectives.
Clark studied at undergrad SUNY Potsdam, NY finished last semester University of Hawaii Studio Arits, Ceramics, and Fine Arts with a Ceramics concentration. Adelphi University for Grad School in Long Island Masters in Art Education K-12 in 2010. Clark has been teaching ages 3 years old to teaching adults since 2008. Clark has taught in private and public school settings, and when she moved to Massachusetts in 2017 she started managing, running, and teaching in a private artist studio in WInchester MA.
Since 2017, Clark has also been the resident scenic designer at a children's theater in Winchester, MA and currently teaches at Newtown Family Access as a preschool art teacher.
Clark is also the resident artist at Soundcheck studios in Pembroke, MA. She lives in Arlington, Massachusetts and teaches drawing, mixed media, painting, photography, media arts, advertising, design, sculpture, stained glass, and media arts all around New England.
Clark is excited to continue to expand her studio and art barn in Vermont where she plans to eventually offer art retreats and workshops. In 2023, Clark partnered to design a logo for a band and then was asked to create an ad in the Grammys Magazine.
She has also sold and displayed art at various galleries in her home state of New York and continues to display and show her work in the greater New England area. Clark has won several local Massachusetts Art competitions.