Jessica McGrath creates jewelry that captures the rhythm of travel, memory, and place. Her work reflects a lifelong fascination with color, texture, and geometric form—especially the circle, a shape that recurs throughout her designs as a symbol of connection, movement, and continuity. Shaped by years spent moving between coastal cities as a military spouse and artist, Jessica’s aesthetic balances structure and spontaneity, precision and emotion.

Trained in metals at Monterey Peninsula College, she combines enamel, gemstones, silver, and gold using techniques such as keum-bo, granulation, and patination. Each piece carries an imprint of her journey: she transforms her travel photographs into etched texture plates, embedding landscapes and moments into metal—turning memory into surface and experience into form.

Through Studio JmcG Jewelry, Jessica continues to explore the conversation between art, material, and story, sharing her work at national shows, in galleries, and online. Her jewelry invites the wearer to carry a fragment of the world—its color, its geometry, its quiet beauty—wherever they go.

She is also an active member of the arts community, serving on the boards of the Artist Open Studios, and as Vice President of the Annapolis Arts Alliance. Through her jewelry, Jessica seeks to share the stories and colors of the world, turning personal experience into wearable art.