Let’s create something meaningful together.

Ocean of Her is the newest body of work by artist and art psychotherapist Jessica Kirkpatrick. Supported by the RSA Blackadder Travel Award, this work in part responds to an immersive journey to Teotihuacan, Mexico, where she engaged in sacred site work and Toltec practices. This exhibition marks a threshold moment in Kirkpatrick’s practice—where her identities as artist, healer, and facilitator converge.

The paintings and drawings reflect a shift in her approach to art-making: embracing the kinaesthetic, haptic, and psychic dimensions of the canvas. Rather than pursuing aesthetic perfection or technical mastery, Kirkpatrick works through process, presence, and emotional truth. Each brush mark becomes an act of devotion—a tactile anchor into attentive awareness. The canvas functions not only as a surface for images but as a psychic frame in which sensation, memory, and intuition can unfold.

Ocean of Her—is the vast, generative force of feminine creativity. This ocean holds the full spectrum of experience: joy, rage, grief, sensuality, tenderness, and ecstasy. Historically, such emotional and intuitive intelligence has often been suppressed or dismissed. Through painting, Kirkpatrick reclaims these energies, allowing them to flow freely in raw, expressive forms. Imperfection is welcomed as the gold of humanity, creating space for complexity and authenticity.

Kirkpatrick is  expanding her practice to offer therapeutic and creative services that use art-making as a pathway toward healing, self-understanding, and community connection. The participatory relational experience accompanying the exhibition offers a glimpse into this approach—inviting visitors to understanding art not simply as something to observe, but as a living process that can support expression, reflection, and transformation.

In a world increasingly fractured by conflict, oppression, ecological grief and collective trauma,  Kirkpatrick’s work seeks to cultivate tenderness, care, and authenticity. Drawing on ancestral wisdom, ritual, and embodied creative practice, Ocean of Her invites viewers to pause, feel, and reconnect with the vast tidal intelligence of the creative psyche.

Ultimately, the exhibition is both a personal offering and a communal invitation: to witness, to participate, and to remember the deep currents of imagination, intuition, and emotional life that flow within us all.