Jess Miller: Painted Clay Sculptures of the Figure - Jackson's Art Blog

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Jess Miller is an artist inspired by the human figure, body language and identity. Her favoured medium is clay, which she models in front of the subject. The immediacy of her responses to what she sees is borne out of the tactility of the medium. The flesh of her hands shape the flesh of the model on a plinth, giving form to the experience of seeing. Once her modelling is complete she often adds colour using oil paint, rubbing and sanding the surface to patinate it. The resulting works can only have been made with this process; sensual and contemplative meditations on the figure and their identities. Lisa: Hi Jess! Can you tell us who you are and how you came to be an artist? Jess: My name is Jess Miller, I am an artist and my focus is primarily on figurative drawing, painting and sculpture. I find that whatever art ideas and projects I pursue over the years, I always return to a fascination with the human figure and the freedom to get messy with clay or charcoal etc. Growing up, art was always my passion. I left school at 16 and did a 2-year art & design BTec