Jessica Jenyns

Website: http://www.jessicajenyns.co.uk
Email: jrjartistphoto@outlook.com
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Jessica Jenyns is a Yorkshire-based Artist and Photographer who uses flora and fauna, the mountains, oceans and seas to inform her work. She is always at play and finds joy, comfort and endless wonder in Nature. Jessica specialises in needle-felting and ceramics. Her Wearable Art is truly unique; she uses secondhand, preloved and damaged clothing to create beautiful, tactile pieces to be re-loved and looked after. Recycling and upcycling is the focus of this forever evolving body of work.

Jessica’s Ceramic pieces are sensitive and delightful. She brings animals to life by hand-building them from clay before using glazes in an experimental way which, to her delight, produces magical results. Jessica studied BA Hons English Literature at Lancaster University, where she spent vast amounts of her time creating intricate costumes for college extravaganzas. Between periods of travel, she studied MA Experimental Film at Kingston University. Jessica went on to work as part of the photographer Rankin’s film team before moving to Oxford for a couple of years where she learned more about what she did and did not like about the film industry.

Since starting her business in 2019, Jessica’s portfolio has evolved dramatically; her work is sold in galleries across Yorkshire, she works on outreach projects in primary schools and she hosts her own needle-felt and clay workshops. She also had her work selected for the Ilkley Manor House ‘Connections’ exhibition in Summer 2025. Jessica is also an in-house photographer for Thunk-It Theatre and has worked with York Theatre Royal on their city-wide, community projects. Unsurprisingly, her photography also plays a key roll in the inception of many of her creative works, as inspiration often strikes when she is hiking or wild swimming in the Lake District.