Jessica Farrell (b. 1963) is a painter who grew up in southern Indiana. She spent her early adulthood living in New York City, working in commercial photography, and attending evening drawing classes at the School of Visual Arts. In 1989, Farrell moved to a small hamlet in the Catskill Mountains of New York State. For twenty years, she partnered with her husband, creating hundreds of pieces of obsessive art furniture from natural materials. In addition to her art practice, Farrell manages the David Byrd Estate Catalogue Raisonné. Her work has appeared in Town & Country, Country Living Magazine, The New York Times, and more.
Jessica Farrell’s dreamlike paintings fuse the mythic with the rural, tapping into the interconnectedness of all living things. Through lush depictions of nature and myth-infused figures, Farrell’s pieces offer a vision of the human condition that is both grounded and spiritual. There is a quiet reverence for the body as both vessel and presence, echoing themes of vulnerability, strength, and communion with the natural world.
—Robert Brune, The Mountain Eagle Newspaper