My name is Jess-o (Jess Theriault). I live in the and work in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and also spent much of my youth in Maine. I work mainly in acrylic painting as well as clay and mixed media sculpture. The name Jess-o is a play on gesso, a primer used to prepare surfaces for painting or other finishes. I use gesso, and black gesso in particular, to prime everything from canvas to clay, paper mache, rocks, Styrofoam, and anything else that can be made into art. My style is also diverse, ranging from abstract to highly realist...more
