It is here, in the quiet of stillness and the process of expression, that I believe Spirit (the Universe) draws closer to every human heart, offering healing, hope, and joy. In our humanness, we surrender and allow ourselves to connect with spirit, the Great Creator, hearing the words, music, messages, moving in trance states, working in stillness or rhythmic joy, toning, singing…. expressing—to connect to the Source that made us.
Since the dawn of history, people have used art, nature, silence, movement, and journeying as a form of expression and connection and together, I help you create experiences to guide this innate creativity toward deeper connection with the Creator, whatever name you call it.
Across traditions and time, humanity has sought to understand the mystery of creation—the sculpting of the Universe and its inhabitants into being. It’s inhabitants being us, of course, and the sculpting being the experiences that we have with our minds, bodies and souls that shape everything in our life.
About Jessica (Jes) Waters
There is an invisible web that unites all of us. As a Transpersonal (Spiritual) & Healing Artist, who co-creates with spirit, in an interfaith, intuitive process, Jes walks between worlds and her art and originally composed music are shared experiences from the other side.
Jes Waters – Artist Bio
Jes Waters is a 7th-generation artist whose creative journey is deeply shaped by her experiences of healing through the arts and spirituality. Her work is birthed from her unique QCR process – a Sacred Triune of quieting, creating, and reflecting – which guides her interdisciplinary, transpersonal mixed-media creations and musical compositions.
With a strong academic background, Jes has completed advanced graduate studies in art history and digital art at Lindenwood University, as well as in music technology at Southern Utah University. Her educational journey also includes a Ph.D. in Transpersonal Psychology, an MFA from Goddard College and Lindenwood University, and a Master’s in Applied Psychology. She holds a Bachelor’s in Education and has pursued continuing education at the Kansas City Art Institute, the Art Students League of Denver, and the Taos Art School. Her extensive studies in restorative and expressive arts therapies, along with her background as a former addictions counselor and art teacher, further inform her creative practice. In 2025 she completed her certificate of Theology and the Arts at Fuller Equip.
Jes’s current body of work explores the intersection of interdisciplinary mixed-media fine art with digital art and originally composed soundtracks, resulting in motion graphic fine art videos. She has exhibited her work throughout North America, including prominent venues like Canyon Road in Santa Fe, NM. Jes was selected as the 2024 Official Artist for the Kansas City Parade of Hearts, where she showcased her piece Confluence: Where All Paths Find Home. Her work has also been featured at the KC Fringe Festival, Mosaic Life Center's Healing Art Gallery, 80 Santa Fe, and Interurban Art House.
In addition to her visual art, Jes is an accomplished composer, vocalist, and writer. Over the past two decades, she has released more than 23 albums under various performing names, including Magnetic Wind, Wen'deya, Mesawzee, and Jes12Crows. Her compositions were featured in the film The Cabin. Jes offers freelance video and film score composition services, as well as curated healing art bundles that combine art, music, writing, and more. She strives to stay balanced and connected in a chaotic world, finding solace and purpose through her art-making practice.
Jes is also a credentialed integrated medicine for emotional well-being, HeartMath Clinical Provider and Restorative Expressive Arts Practitioner, as well as licensed alcohol and drug counselor, transpersonal psychologist and certified chaplain. Her training ranges from Hazeldon to NADAAC, Columbia University to Contemplative Outreach, Intl. She hold numerous certifications in mental health, addictions, integrated medicine, functional medicine for mental health and expressive arts and is a registered spiritual companion.
Burning Heart, 2025
Jes Waters
I realized in critics,
that we, as artists, have a responsibility
to share more fully about the works we create,
so the viewer has a pathways of understanding
to what our true intention and purpose of the piece is.
For me, adding motion, making my static work alive, and composing soundtracks, expanding the embodied and energetic experience, helps get this done.
I started singing and creating when I was small. My mom got me a piano in 3rd grade so I could take lessons and it became my refuge, as well as my pain in the butt when trying to play Bartok. I loved the arpeggios and growing up in the 80’s, when synthesizer keyboards and electronic music were just gaining popularity on a broad scale, introduced me to the amazing potential of sound creation. But sitting on that bench in front of the upright feeling the vibration of the sound through my hands had an immediate calming effect on me and spoke directly to my heart.
I studied music for most of my youth and young adulthood and then the talk about “getting a real job” occurred. But I ended up turning that into a creative “real job” and was an art and music teacher for almost three decades. Along the way I moved into mental health using expressive therapies to help folks overcome addictions and heal themselves.
For me, whether it was singing, playing the piano, later the keys and composing, painting, working with fibers or collage, clay or photography, there was always very deep connection, beyond that actually, it was spiritual. It was, and still does, speak to my soul. There are segments of time when I am in creative flow that I have no idea consciously how my fingers and hands create what it does. It matters not if it’s music, writing or art making. It. Just. Flows. The key element is that I have to be in a state of meditation, vulnerable and open, allowing flow. Some of my deepest pains and greatest joys have been explored in my art and sound throughout the past 20 years. As I have gotten older I have intentionally dived into the world of the mystics, the Divina’s, contemplative and mindfulness practices and things that are slower, allowing myself to percolate and hear.
I work intuitively. I rarely have a plan. But when the wheels start turning and I’m in alignment, magical things happen. In sparks of image, sound that percolates up, visions of moving pictures, and the quiet, solid voice of spirit, I create these works as expressions and shared experiences to communicate with you things from the other side.
The expressive arts have been my salvation, my spiritual connection, my church, my healer, teacher and mirror. They have also reminded me that I am the vessel and as long as I remain open to the Creative forces of the Divine, all is well, Sacred and Holy.
Come walk with me a bit. Sit and listen. Maybe you’ll find something to connect with. If you do, I’d love to hear from you.
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