Shoutout DFW

We had the good fortune of connecting with Jessica M. Chaix and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Jessica, what’s something about your industry that outsiders are probably unaware of?
Art is changing all the time! With all social media, there is really nothing that is a secret. Everything is out there: techniques, mediums, styles, EVERYTHING is exposed. However, the difference between one Art piece and another, is from the artist’s side, the mastering of the media and what the Art piece means to you. The feeling it gives you, what it expresses, and the perception you get from it. The usage of mediums, colors, or techniques can apparently be the same, but the final result of them tells a different story. Mastering a medium or a technique is a unique experience that shows practice and expertise. It allows the artist to speak to you and transmit all the hours of experimentation, frustration, studies, feelings, etc. This is a unique voice that only a specific piece of Art has inside it. Anyone can paint or draw, but what makes a difference is the passion that an artist has to pursue their dreams. To find their own voice, their true style, and try to develop something new. Find something intriguing, a new way to express, and for a lot of years, to be on the search to keep learning, working, expressing, exhibiting, to take rejection, and to be over the moon when a piece sells, is the best feeling. There can be a lot of copies or imitations of a piece of Art, or a style of Art, but it’s never going to be the same. Each artist has their own voice, soul, and experiences. If their work is professional, it shows, if it has personality, it depicts about the artist himself.

Image Credits
First main picture credit: Vanessa Gavalya