NOVICE JESS
“My work is a mixture of the mediums that I love; pencil, Photoshop and spray paint recently experimenting again with acrylic paint.
On paper my illustrations feature sayings that make me smile and drawings that challenge my skill while exploring what colour can do.
The work I create on walls feature large faces mainly, which over time have become more stylised. I like to design these pieces using photoshops many features and filters to manipulate and over produce photos, combining them with other textures in a digital collage. These designs are then applied to walls using spray paint.
Hailing from a very creative family, I spent 2 years in BCFE in Dublin, graduated from the National College of Art and design with a Hons degree in Ceramic Design and a Post graduate diploma in Community Art education.
Although I have spent her life with a pencil in my hand, I gave myself the street artist name of Novice. This is for two reasons. One was because when I chose a street art name, I was very new to the media and scale. And two because as a creative person (and human) I like the idea of always being somewhat of a novice, always learning, always discovering. The longer I create art the more I realise how much more I have to learn. And one of my favourite thing about being an artist is getting lost in creating art, facing the challenges and enjoying meeting these challenges.” - Jess Tobin aka Novice
