Artist Bio
Jessica Bernert

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Jessica Bernert is a Pacific Northwest oil painter whose work explores transformation, connection, and the spiritual undercurrents of nature. Through expressive brushwork, layered symbolism, and a bold, emotional palette, her paintings act as visual narratives — often featuring birds, botanicals, and landscape elements drawn from Oregon’s rivers, forests, and skies.

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Based in Portland, Oregon, Jessica creates from her home studio and draws inspiration from both personal experience and ancestral lineage — blending feminine energy, memory, and emotional depth into each canvas. Her current body of work, the Awakenings series, invites viewers into a world of metamorphosis and meaning, using light and form as a language for healing and rediscovery.

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More than a medium, painting is her way of living — a practice of witnessing, honoring, and shaping the cycles of life through color and canvas.

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Jessica is a multi-disciplinary creative with a 25-year career in brand design (Pail Design) and a lifelong commitment to storytelling through image, emotion, and environment. Her work is available as original paintings and limited-edition prints, and she will be exhibiting at Portland Open Studios, October 2025.