The Purpose Behind The Collection
Grief lives in the body. It lodges in muscles, in breath, in stillness and often, in silence. Without time or space to fully express our emotions, they settle in, sometimes surfacing as pain or fatigue, or even as creative block.
The Space Between - Embodied in Love and Loss is a multimedia collection that gives voice and shape to these hidden emotions.
What began as a journey through loss evolved into an expression of love, healing and reconnection. Rather than focusing on absence, this collection reveals the ongoing presence of love. How even in grief, we are held by what once was. Through bold art, colouring pages and creative reflections each piece invites you to feel deeply and find your light within.
Jess's Story
This collection was inspired by my own journey with grief. When I was 19 I lost my Dad to cancer. For many years, I suppressed my grief, and with it my creativity. Nearly a decade later, through art, I found my voice again. Art gave me a way to meet my grief, not to fix it, but to witness it. Each painting emerged from that honest and vulnerable process. What you see now, through art, colouring pages and journals, offers the original art in a different way, to support you in your own experience with grief. My hope is that this space helps you reconnect with your emotions, intuition and voice in your own journey.
The Structure of This Collection
This collection is held across thirteen emotional themes on grief. All my work is guided by the number thirteen. Twelve explore different emotional facets of a theme, in this case grief. While the thirteenth holds the essence of the journey as a whole.
This collection begins with the central theme: The Space Between. From there, it guides you through twelve emotions that live within that space. If you were to explore this through the journals and print clubs, these emotions are split across five core sections, mirroring themes seen in grief models. Each emotion offers a gentle invitation to rediscover who you are now and how you want to show up for yourself moving forward. At the end, the theme returns. Welcoming you back to yourself, perhaps a little differently than before.
