Beyond The Eye Art
Meet Intuitive Energy Artist Jessica Bush
A House That Was a Work of Art
My story begins growing up in a house unlike any other. My father, Alfred Bush, was an architectural engineer who apprenticed under Frank Lloyd Wright (they called him Alfie) and helped build Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona. Years later, he designed and built our family home in the New York suburbs - an experimental Wright-inspired structure with a rare double-parabolic roof, a bold innovation Wright himself never used.
I grew up inside that house: surrounded by geometry and organic curves, by nature, and by an originality I didn't yet have words for. A Wright historian once described my father this way - "Bush was tutored and influenced by Wright, but he was not a copyist." I've come to know the same is true of my own work: rooted in everything I love, beholden to none of it.
Where the Creativity Began
My creative journey started in the suburbs of New York City in the 1960s - paintbrush in hand, imagination soaring. I built imaginary rooms with my father's architecture templates and sculpted animals from my mother's homemade playdough.
My mother, Gertrude, was a pioneer in her own right - the first in her family to put herself through college, earning a Master's in Early Childhood Development from NYU and becoming a lifelong advocate for emotional health and creative expression. From her I learned inner strength, empathy, and self-awareness. One of my most vivid early memories is visiting the Guggenheim with my Dad at age seven and being utterly mesmerized by Wassily Kandinsky's use of color, movement, shape, and line. I didn't know it yet, but that was the beginning of everything.
From the Other Side of the Canvas
My formal training began in 1978 at Alfred University's School of Art and Design, in its rigorous year-long Foundations program - an intensive, cross-disciplinary year of studio practice, lectures, and group work designed to build a strong conceptual and technical base before choosing a focus. It did exactly that for me: it made clear, beyond any doubt, that painting and drawing were my true language. Wanting to immerse myself more fully in that work - and to be closer to New York City and the energy of the fine art world - I transferred to Purchase College (SUNY), School of Art and Design, where my style took shape under the influence of Abstract Expressionism: Kandinsky, Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, and Jackson Pollock among those who moved me most.
Then, for more than 25 years, I worked inside the art world itself: selling, curating, and helping collectors find the pieces that spoke to them. That experience taught me how deeply people connect with art - and it's exactly what I bring to my own. After decades of helping others build their collections, I'm now devoting myself fully to the work I was always meant to make. My prints have already found homes with collectors who feel that connection, and this is the moment my whole life has been quietly building toward.
The collection itself spans the full breadth of my work - from pieces created in the late 1970s through to brand-new pieces - so you can trace how my style has evolved across the decades, and even acquire work that spans across it's entire arc.
Answering the Call
The truth is, I never really left art. Even through the busy years of having a family, learning as much as I could about business, and building a tutoring practice, the painting and drawing never stopped - art simply waited quietly in the background, ready for me to give it center stage.
My father has been gone for some time now. And still, his words come to me, clear as anything: "Do your art. Do your art. It's who you are." A few years ago, I began to truly listen. As an artist who has learned to trust what I feel, I knew those messages weren't to be ignored - and so I began giving my art and creative expression the central place in my life it had always deserved. Beyond the Eye Art is my answer to Dad: a space to share my intuitive, energy-infused work fully and openly. Each piece is a reflection of that journey, made for anyone who seeks connection, insight, and beauty beyond the surface.
Artist Statement
For me, Abstract Expressionism is a way of giving form to what we feel but cannot see - our inner thoughts, our emotions, our energy. I sense the energy of people, of nature, of the universe, and that movement flows naturally through me when I'm drawing or painting. Creating, I've come to understand, is a spiritual process; I free my mind, almost as in meditation, and color, line, and shape emerge on their own.
My work is also how I honor my parents, who gave me the freedom to discover that creative energy in the first place. Art isn't what I do - it's who I am. And sharing it is my joy.
Clients Are Saying...
Jessica Bush’s Beyond the Eye is more than an art collection—it’s an invitation to feel. Her works, showcased on BeyondTheEyeArt.com, transcend traditional visual boundaries, offering viewers a journey into the intuitive and emotional realms that lie beyond mere sight.
One notable aspect of Bush’s work is her ability to channel the energies of people and nature into her art. This sensitivity results in pieces that resonate on a deeply emotional level, inviting viewers to connect with the underlying feelings and movements depicted. Such an approach is reminiscent of the practices found in energy art, where artists aim to capture and convey the unseen forces that influence our experiences.
Her paintings, landscapes, and studies delve deeply into an array of topics ranging from nature to movement. One of my favorite pieces is GeoDancer 3, which is a new addition to her portfolio. Jessica captures an incredibly complex sense of movement and motion in the piece which makes the viewer feel like they are dancing alongside the subject.
~ Kathryn Lancioni, Presenting Perfection, Upper Montclair, New Jersey
