Jessalin Beutler grew up in small dairy towns north of Seattle surrounded by nature and animals. Always a thinker and an artist, as a child she was often found in her room combining the two in heartfelt letters to friends and obsessive journaling. She also loved spending time outside, staring at the grass taking photographs with analog equipment as early as 10 years old. She graduated from Whitman College in 2004 with the decision that pursuing art and making would become her lifelong focus. Primarily self taught, Jessalin's work has taken many forms: drawing, photography, printmaking, graphic design, illustration, paper making, painting and textile design. Her process is personal and intuitive, using painting as a way to understand unconscious motives and feelings, connect, and be present to innate knowledge that we all carry around within. In doing so, her work can be raw, emotional and energetic yet also beautiful and contained.
