Starting smart: pick the right parents.

Jessica began her career in the arts at a young age. With some unusual advantages. At five her parents - father an architect, mother a dancer - enrolled her in Japanese ink painting class. Hours spent grinding inks and learning to appreciate their limitless monochromatic shadings set a solid foundation for her future studies.

Years later as a student in the Canberra School of Art glass workshop she relentlessly pursued the image of the horizon line - and gained the technical tools needed to express this quietly powerful theme in glass.

A week after graduating from the Canberra program in 1997 Loughlin traveled to Portland as one of four Australians in Bullseye's first International Young Artists in Glass program. By 2001 she had received the UrbanGlass Outstanding New Talent award. At age 27 she has distinguished herself as among the best in the next generation of glass.

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