Statement
Art is about expressing feelings and thoughts about the systems in which we live. Art is about opening up to the creative impulse. It is a freedom which imagines possiblities. My art is centred around this longing to explore the inner world as well as embracing the patterns of the world beyond.
C.V.
Michael Jessing
Born: 1953 - New York City
Selected Exhibitions:
2010 Carlisle Cathedral, Carlisle - “Selections from the Book of Psalms”
2009 Wells Cathedral, Wells - “Selections from the Book of Psalms”
2008 York Minster Library, York - “Selections from the Book of Psalms”
Chichester Cathedral, Chichester - “Selections from the Book of Psalms”
2007 London Centre for Spirituality - “Icons by Michael Jessing”
2004 St. John’s, Edinburgh Festival of Spirituality - “Psalms and Icons”
2002 St. Giles, Oxford - “Selections from the Book of Psalms”
2000 Carie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York
1995 Maclaurin Art Gallery, Ayr - “Urban Allegories by Michael Jessing”
1994 Gracefield Art Centre, Dumfries - “Urban Allegories by Michael Jessing”
1993 Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh - “Urban Allegories by Michael Jessing”
1990 Emerging Collector Gallery, New York City
1987 Canton Art Institute, Ohio - “Urban Allegories by Michael Jessing”
Selected References:
Times & Star Carlisle - Rosalind Gibb - Art Finds Divine Inspiration - 15th April 2010
Susan Gillingham - Psalms through the Centuries - Blackwell, 2008
London Link - “Jessing’s Powerful Parables” - November 1996
Scottish Television - Janice Forsyth (NB) 11th November 1993
The List - “Urban Allegories” - February 1993
Education:
Art Students League, New York City, 1970-1974
contact - phone 01721 723569
Jessing teaching at an icon workshop in Tullie House, Carlisle 2009
