Jessica Van Hulle's art expresses a profound appreciation of the beauty of form while honoring the complexity of the human condition.

       In the erotic series, she is investigating intimacy, sensuality, sexuality and the transcendent power of intense human connection. Her artwork can be viewed as disarmingly hedonistic. However, it stems from a deep concern for the dissolution of human interconnection, the difficulty many people have maintaining healthy, loving relationships, and our values and priorities as a culture.

       Her artistic concept has slowly evolved from years of study of relationships, spirituality and psychology. Her inspirations include Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, Michael and Christina Naumer from Relationship Research Institute, her mother JP Van Hulle, a metaphysical teacher and former Masters and Johnson instructor. Van Hulle believes that culturally our basic human values and interpersonal skills have been undermined and ignored and that has contributed to widespread disharmony and alienation.

       Her technique is influenced by instruction in a Chinese academic style that combines a very realistically rendered focal point with a loose, abstracted background. Crisp dimensional forms transitioning into lost edges both create a strong illusion of depth and honor the masculine and feminine principals.

       Van Hulle's work invites viewers to reevaluate themselves and the roles they play in their relationships from an intimate to global level. Her ultimate goal is to create "aesthetic arrest" in the viewer and to inspire, to awaken the heart, and to clarify present emotional and spiritual states of being.

       Jessica Van Hulle is a Bay Area native and resides and works in downtown San Francisco. She enjoys creating sensual fine art and science fiction/ fantasy illustration in a variety of mediums. She has traditional academic training underlying her expressive work and she received her B.F.A. in Illustration in May 2004 from the Academy of Art University.

       Van Hulle has been honored both nationally and locally for her artwork. Her work was displayed at the 2004 Seattle Erotic Arts Festival, she was the Spotlight Featured Artist of The Artist's Magazine, Feb. 2003, and was a winner of the New York Society of Illustrators 2002 student competition. In addition, she has been featured in three Academy of Art Spring Shows and has been participating in local art shows for four years.

       Her goals include continuing to examine relationships, investigating alternative relationships, challenging preconceived and commercial notions of physical beauty, and contributing to the San Francisco art community.