Orchid Cascade Photograph

Award winning photographer, Jessica Kimmel Manelis has been creating art since grade school. At age 11, she began taking art classes every Saturday afternoon. Throughout high school, she continued drawing and painting in a variety of mediums and ultimately settled at Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia, pursuing a career in the professional arts. While at Moore, she received many accolades from her instructors and won competitions where her work was featured in magazines. Upon graduation, she settled in to a career as a graphic designer. Finding that creatively stunting, she set out to pursue her true creative passion. Self-taught, Jessica fell in to photography as a means of generating reference photos for future art projects. However, she found the photo process was more fun. Embracing the medium, Jessica's work has been exhibited in several group shows in New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and most recently at the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts and at the Naples Art Center. Her work has been described as "wonderful", "brilliant", "gorgeous color and detail", "great perspective". Currently she lives with her husband, two kids and two dogs in southern New Jersey, where she continues to photograph the world around her. I have always wanted to be an artist, and although life has taken me down a slightly different path, I always come back to my creative self. I have a degree in Illustration from Moore College of Art & Design and worked for several years as a graphic designer. Commuting became un-fun and the job creatively stunting. I decided to move on. I began taking photographs as a means of gathering reference photos for future paintings and art projects. I found myself on the computer, cropping and manipulating the photos and this proved to be more fun. The results were enticing. I hope you enjoy my images and I would love to get your feedback. All images are owned, the property of and copyright of ©Jessica Manelis. All The Materials Contained May Not Be Reproduced, Copied, Edited, Published, Transmitted Or Downloaded in Any Way. All Rights Reserved. Copying, altering, displaying or redistribution of any of these images without written permission from the artist is strictly prohibited. visit www.jessicamanelis.com www.jessicamanelis.com www.bluecanvas.com/jkm1968 www.redbubble.com/people/jkm1968 www.fineartamerica.com