Jessica Carter

Jessica Carter is a mixed media collage artist specializing in hand painted, found papers for her palette. Each piece is hand torn and meshed together to create a story within a painting begging to be looked at closely to find the hidden treasures.

Hailing from a long line of artisans, Jessica is a self taught artist. As a Golden Apple Teacher, she has transitioned from spending her days teaching third grade children that there is art in science and math, and science and math in art, to now high school art teacher! If it were not for teaching, Jessica would never have met the mother/artist Elizabeth St. Hilaire who inspired her to learn collage art 12 years ago. 

Jessica was selected to participate in FAFO’s Emerging Artists program in 2019. Since that time she has shown work at NOMA Art Gallery, Marion Cultural Alliance “The Brick”, and other community events. Jessica was a featured artist for "Couch Sessions" in Ocala, FL for season 5, episode 3 where she live painted within an interactive audience while a musician performed.

Jessica lives in Ocala, Florida and is the proprietor at O’Lily Down Art Studio. She is married to Michael Carter and has three children.

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Found papers, maps and atlas' discarded from vehicles, hymnals no longer used in pews, books in the discard pile all become the paper I paint to use as my palette.