About

Jess Quinn’s Little Witch Series is inspired by her epic painting ‘A Gathering Of Ancestors’ that gave its title to her recent solo show in London.

Jess contemplates the many women cast as witches historically and how young women continue to be demonsised but also take ownership of the label.

Jess skilfully weaves together memories and real events with fictional characters and places borrowing from fairy tales, folklore and history of art. In these paintings she references her own Quaker heritage, re-imagining her Quaker ancestors travelling from Wales and Germany wearing the distinctive …