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Jessey Jansen Portfolio | Mixed Media
Portraying whispering moments to challenging paradigms of social mobility through mixed media and collaborative art.
"For me, creating has always been a companion, allowing me to make sense of seemingly uncontrolled situations through controlled mediums."
VOM + JJ Album Art
Album Art
Layered Paper
2022 - current
Voice of Maasai album art combines my artistic skills with my passion for helping others. Sold as limited editions, an actionable way for our fans to support budding Maasai talent.
Layered Paper
2022 - current
Voice of Maasai album art combines my artistic skills with my passion for helping others. Sold as limited editions, an actionable way for our fans to support budding Maasai talent.
Aging in Color
Abstract
Acrylic
2024- current
Prying into aging with a palette knife, I explore its complexity and uneasiness through color, form and gestural marks. When done right, the creativity itself is my fountain of youth, an extraordinarily powerful process of opportunity and strength.
Acrylic
2024- current
Prying into aging with a palette knife, I explore its complexity and uneasiness through color, form and gestural marks. When done right, the creativity itself is my fountain of youth, an extraordinarily powerful process of opportunity and strength.
Voice of Maasai (redirect link)
Collaborative Art
Music & Media Label
2011- current
Combining my professional skills with my passion for helping others, VOM music and media label aims to advance opportunities, build bridges and make art responsive to the world around us.
Music & Media Label
2011- current
Combining my professional skills with my passion for helping others, VOM music and media label aims to advance opportunities, build bridges and make art responsive to the world around us.
Cutaway
Paper Cut Graphic Portraiture
Layered Paper
2021 - current
Combining my fascination with paper, my obsession with the profile and my skills in graphic design, Cutaway collage art explores dreams, ambitions and identity though graphic portraiture.
Layered Paper
2021 - current
Combining my fascination with paper, my obsession with the profile and my skills in graphic design, Cutaway collage art explores dreams, ambitions and identity though graphic portraiture.
Isa & Nio
Digital Collage
2021-current
Merging my interests in science-fiction with my skills in digital collage, Isa and Nio is a graphic story of two female guardians, once espers on earth, who have matured into drifting cellular structures. Inspired by my daughter, Niosha, and Isabella, a young Maasai woman.
2021-current
Merging my interests in science-fiction with my skills in digital collage, Isa and Nio is a graphic story of two female guardians, once espers on earth, who have matured into drifting cellular structures. Inspired by my daughter, Niosha, and Isabella, a young Maasai woman.
Paper People
Wall Sculpture
Paper Pulp Relief
2019 - current
Inspired by my time spent with the Maasai, I borrow their phrase for foreigners, "The Paper People" to explore vulnerability through medium and place.
Paper Pulp Relief
2019 - current
Inspired by my time spent with the Maasai, I borrow their phrase for foreigners, "The Paper People" to explore vulnerability through medium and place.
Civil Speed
Digital Sketchbook
Photography/Digital Collage
2017 - current
Civil Speed is a digital sketchbook, combining my love of light photography, graphic design and collage.
Photography/Digital Collage
2017 - current
Civil Speed is a digital sketchbook, combining my love of light photography, graphic design and collage.
Little Lady
Illustrative Gift Cards
2004 - current
Identifying my dreams through drawing, the little lady is a symbol of my promise to live, dream and create. - Currently updating portfolio page
2004 - current
Identifying my dreams through drawing, the little lady is a symbol of my promise to live, dream and create. - Currently updating portfolio page
The Social Portrait
Illustrative Portraiture
Gouache/ink on paper
2013 - 2019
Dedicated to the diverse passion and pursuits of woman, debuted in celebration of International Women's Day 2013
Gouache/ink on paper
2013 - 2019
Dedicated to the diverse passion and pursuits of woman, debuted in celebration of International Women's Day 2013
MyPOP
Civic
Beeswax, Oil, Collage on Wood
2006 -17
MyPOP (My Print on Poverty) uses art as a awareness and action tool by identifying stages and steps to moving out of the dysfunctional cycles of poverty.
Beeswax, Oil, Collage on Wood
2006 -17
MyPOP (My Print on Poverty) uses art as a awareness and action tool by identifying stages and steps to moving out of the dysfunctional cycles of poverty.
Sounds of Silence
Figure/Ambient
Beeswax, oil on Paper
2004 - 15
Sensory exploration of medium and environment. It is meant to offer the viewer a serene space in the midst of difficult times.
Beeswax, oil on Paper
2004 - 15
Sensory exploration of medium and environment. It is meant to offer the viewer a serene space in the midst of difficult times.
Design
Product & Graphic Design
Over the Decades
Art & design for social responsibility.
Over the Decades
Art & design for social responsibility.
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