Jessica Velo is a painter living and working on Lopez Island, Washington in the USA. Her figurative paintings range from alla prima still life and local landscapes to works combining multiple elements and styles to tell a story or pose a question. Decades after dropping out of art school and ceasing to make art, she began learning to paint in mid-life and is self-taught. Velo is inspired by seeing metaphor in nature, and exploring emotional states through subjects both real and imagined in oil paints. Her work currently resides in private collections.