Since graduating from Glasgow School of Art with a BA Hons in Fine Art, Jessica has exhibited at The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh; The Royal Glasgow Institute, Glasgow; The London Art Fair, Compass Gallery; The Scottish Show, Thompsons London; Red Rag Gallery, Stow on the Wold; The Jerwood Drawing Prize, London; Singer and Friedlander watercolour Exhibition, and invited artist, Mall Galleries, London. She has held solo exhibitions at Glasgow Art Club fellowship award show; Hospitalfield House, Arbroath; Pentagon, Glasgow; The Games Store, Cromarty and Cafe Cossachock, Glasgow.
In 2008 Jessica won the RSW Glasgow Art Club Prize, and in 2002 won a BP Portrait Travel Award to journey overland from Glasgow to Shanghai on the Trans Siberian Railway, painting portraits.
Jessica is currently a tutor in adult learning at Strathclyde University, a tutor at Glasgow Drawing Club and The Prince's Drawing School London.