Internationally acclaimed intuitive artist, teacher and author,  Jo Jayson was born and educated in the UK and began her artistic career as a muralist. Painting and drawing from an early age, Jo left her Fine Art degree at the end of the first year, after  feeling disappointed and uninspired with the lack of traditional training and teaching in her college. She worked in advertising and media and then as a picture librarian at the National Portrait Gallery in London but loyal to her calling to paint and with a natural talent for decorative finishes, composition and technique, she returned to painting and moved into the decorative arts world and became a faux finisher and muralist, working in London, Sydney and New York.

 In 2008, she began painting for herself, completing her much-loved “Goddess Chakra” series. In 2011, she unveiled the beginning of her “Sacred Feminine” series of paintings, unfolding a body of work that took six years to complete, containing thirteen feminine energies each with their own teachings and wisdom. This work was later compiled into her award winning book “Self-Love through the Sacred Feminine” , the companion to her oracle deck of thirteen guidance and inspirational cards.

Jo has emerged as an internationally  intuitive artist and spiritual teacher, helping women all over the world find empowerment, healing, and inspiration. She has spent many years teaching children and adults drawing and painting in her community and seven years teaching workshops  and online courses for healing and self-development in and around the United States . Her paintings, prints, meditation kits and CD’S for physical and emotional wellness and empowerment are sought after and respected by her large following here in the US, Europe and around the world.

Artist Statement:

Painting for me has always been an act of deep intimate connection with myself. In the act of painting and capturing an emotion, expression or energy on to the canvas, I have had the privilege of following my passion and I will be forever grateful for the time life has allowed me to create the paintings and teachings that you will find here.

For many years now my work has channeled in the energy of the Feminine to empower and inspire women and men all over the world. Whether it be representations of the chakra energy system in feminine form or the collection of thirteen ancient Goddesses, Women of strength and Prophetesses in history, the feminine aspect of ourselves, life and the Divine has always fascinated me. It has felt like a calling to represent this feminine essence of beauty, nurture and healing and to bring back some balance into the representation of the Holy. This aspect some call the Divine or Sacred Feminine, others call it the Goddess as a counterpart to the masculine God. We have the aspects of the God/Goddess within us all, we are all reflections and expressions of what we like to call the Divine. For so long the divine and the sacred have been represented in the male form and we have forgotten the masculine’s natural compliment. Just as in nature we see the feminine and masculine interplaying and coexisting together, so we do in ourselves and in all aspects of life. When the masculine and feminine aspects are aligned, balanced and in harmony, there is a wholeness and unity that one experiences within themselves and with another. We are witnessing this balance slowly returning back into our culture and our world.

My work is ever changing and evolving and I am sure will continue to do so. Whether it be my painting, my products, my book or a class, a guidance session or a retreat, my hope and intention has always been, and continues to be, to heal, inspire and empower.