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Jessica Lily

Atlanta Artist & Graphic Designer

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About Jessica Lily

Metro-Atlanta artist, Jessica Lily, is a watercolorist who is most inspired by a colorful, playful and magical kind of realism.

Her portraits tell a story of humanity and their strengths, reaching an embodied spirit of the person they serve – a palpable joy, an inner kindness. Something telling about our soul and the journey we have been on.

Her love for painting botanicals and wildlife aligns with that deep love for our natural world – and especially for our local ecosystem.

Jessica teaches watercolor classes at Woodlands Gardens through the Atlanta Watercolor Group. She is a member of the Georgia Watercolor Society, the Louisiana Watercolor Society, the Booth Art Guild, Women in Watercolor and the Atlanta Portrait Society. In the Summer of 2024, was an invited speaker with the Portrait Society of Atlanta on Watercolor Portraits.

She holds a degree in Fine Art from the University of Georgia and was the recipient of a drawing scholarship upon entering UGA. She has a lifelong passion for working in the fine arts, and supporting the arts community around her.

Jessica Lily
based in Atlanta, GA

678-570-5081

Available by appointment only.

Selected Artist Talks, Awards & Exhibition Resume

2025 American Women Artists, National Annual Online Juried Show

2025 Georgia Watercolor Society, National Juried Exhibition~ 4th Place Award, Morris Museum, Augusta GA

2025 Full Scholarship, Watercolor Live 2025

2025 Booth Artists Guild Annual Exhibition at the Booth Western Art Museum, Regional Juried Exhibition, Cartersville, GA

2024 Portrait Society of Atlanta, Invited Speaker for Making Friends with Watercolor with Jessica Lily

2024 Booth Artist Guild, Juried Members Show ~ Honorable Mention Award

2024 Portrait Society of Atlanta, National Juried Exhibition

2024 Portrait Society of Atlanta, Members Juried Exhibition ~ Honorable Mention Award


Full Resume…

Jessica has re-invented herself quite a few times!

Here are some of her creative and work histories.

With a multi-track mind and strong ideation, I am the person who always has ready new ideas and solutions. I am creatively flexible : an achiever who is responsive to client needs and goals, constantly learning and responding to new technology and skills.

An entrepreneur at heart, I have built my own businesses, managed assistants, organized complicated client timelines and projects, created and executed budgets, estimates and analysis.  I am a self-starter who excels at strategy and connectedness, maintaining a strong network of clients who I serve on a repeat basis and referrals to within their community. 

From 2005-2013, I was an award winning wedding photographer as Jessica Horwitz Photography.  My photographs have been published in Atlanta Magazine, Brides Magazine and the Knot Magazine as well as in blog sites, such as MyWedding.com. In 2007, I was awarded Citysearch’s Best Photographer in Atlanta and in 2012, she was voted Gwinnett Magazine’s Best of Gwinnett.  

Working as a photographer since I was a teenager, I have master skill set with Canon camera systems, portrait and studio lighting, engaging portrait subjects and creating studio images for product and food photography.  I have worked with SLR filming and editing for live events and for music videos. 

Similarly I have 15+ years experience using the Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Lightroom, InDesign, Premiere and Illustrator), I am also adept and fluent with WordPress and other web development systems (Wix, Bandzoogle), Cpanel, HTML & CSS and Google Platforms (Drive, Webmaster Tools,  YouTube, MyBusiness). 

Compulsively creative, I have also been a singer and songwriter.  In my 20s, I led a Folk Rock band called Lily of the Suburbs.  We performed across the Southeast and recorded and released a full-length album of original songs called Strange Glass House.  In 2012-2013, I volunteered with the Global Village Project, a school for teenage refugee girls, as a songwriting and ukelele teacher.    In 2018, I started, organized and promoted  a well-received volunteer community singing group called ATL Public Sings.  We brought together diverse groups of non-singers, to sing improvised circle songs together with a cast of song leaders trained in Circle Singing and Improvisation. Similarly, I have studied vocal improvisation and jazz vocals with the likes of Rhiannon and the Nashville Jazz Workshop.   

I try to live my life love first.  Each time I start a new client project, I fall in love with the working process, with what my client is dreaming of and with realizing something wonderful and beautiful that we both can share.  I am deeply in love with my family and live with my husband and daughter.  We spend our days gardening, working, learning and creating.  

History of my Photography Work

Circle Singer, Songwriter and Vocalist

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