Artist: Jessica Anne Schwartz

Title: Chopin Nocturne

Medium: Goache and sumi ink on murillo

Dimensions: 9 X 9.5 in

Jessica Anne Schwartz is a multi-disciplinary artist living in New York City. Her work is held and exhibited in private and public collections.

She has an uncommon form of synesthesia that inspires and informs all of her art. Her senses are cross-wired such that her hearing, touch, taste and smell all generate real-time moving images (some translucent, some opaque) in her visual field. As a result, she has an immense and strikingly beautiful internal visual landscape. What would appear to be abstract paintings and drawings are in fact, for her, naturalist renderings. She describes the process as "butterfly netting" the components of the ever-present sense generated three-dimensional moving images in her visual field and representing them in two dimensions on paper or canvas.

The diversity of her output can be attributed to what she describes as a "population of artists" who reside inside of her. These artists, each with their own personality and interests, compete for her time in order to manifest their own particular creative endeavors. As a result of this, all of her various series of work are continuously ongoing and evolving, and have been for decades.