White Plaster Resin Bugs | Jess Albert

Artist

Jess Albert

Curator Notes

A one of a kind delicately arranged assembly of pure white slip cast insects and beetles. A beautifully contemporary piece of hand made scultpure, perfect for any lover of wildlife and nature in all of its forms.

Description

Medium: Hand Formed Plaster Resin, mounted on Paper & Framed

Size: 100 x 100 cm

About The Artist

Having studied Fine Art & Printmaking at Central St Martin’s Jess earned herself a First Class BA Hons degree. From there she worked as a scenic painter for film specialising in decorative paint effects, murals and gilding. In recent years, Jess has returned to fine art and producing a series of insect illustrations, paintings and digital (giclee) prints collected by fans and followers across the Uk and Europe.

The artists obsession with insects started when she was a child taking long walks with her dad in North London and Cornwall. His interest in animals rubbed off on her and lead her to become fascinated with the infinite variations of species especially in insects. Jess’ work is about the beautiful and the grotesque, mixing the scary with the stunning.

The hybrid insects are made up of many different parts. This could be, say, a wasp’s abdomen, moth wings or beetle pincers. The work draws you in with the beauty of a butterfly only to discover it has spider’s legs, so may challenge a few phobias and create unease! Some work contains foliage, lichen or fungus, thereby forming a medley of nature’s wonders.