
JB Burke
NORTH CAROLINA
Jessica “JB” Burke (b. 1976) makes playful, impressively clean drawings in colored pencil. Working in layers, often fluorescent colors, and employing a variety of techniques, Burke achieves such astonishing, lifelike accuracy; it’s hard to believe these are works on paper done by hand.
JB Burke obtained an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and she is a Fine Arts professor at UNC College of Arts and Architecture in Charlotte. Held in several permanent collections across the U.S. and in Japan, France, and Mexico, her work has been published in Manifest’s International Drawing Annual (INDA), Studio Visit Magazine, North Light Book’s Strokes of Genius 9, and the 2nd Edition of Art for Everyone by University Press. JB Burke began showing with Arch Enemy Arts after submitting to our 2024 Spotlight Showcase and celebrated her first solo feature with the gallery in May 2025.
Catalog of works.
Below is a list of all works from solo and group exhibitions. Any pieces marked with a red dot have been sold.

"The Amateur Sleuth" 2025 digital painting (procreate) on archival heavyweight canvas // 1 of 1 12" x 12" $500 USD

"Houses of Candy Canyon #3" 2024 graphite and powdered graphite on strathmore 400 bristol board 8" x 10" framed to 18" x 18" $525 USD

"Sugarcoated Sanctuary" 2024 Graphite and Powdered Graphite on Arches mounted on Birch Panel 16" x 16" framed to 18" x 18" $715 USD

"The Sun Forgot to Touch This Face" 2025 colored pencil on bristol mounted on panel 12" x 9" framed to 13" x 10" sold

"The Wealthy Eccentric" 2025 colored pencil on cp watercolor paper 14" x 11" framed to 21.75" x 17.75" sold

"Residents of Candy Canyon: Sherbert Hargrove" 2025 colored pencil on stonehenge paper 12" x 12" framed to 13.5" x 13.5" sold

"Former Resident of Candy Canyon: Jasper Mellow" 2024 colored pencil on canson mi-tientes paper (lilac) 16" x 12" framed to 21.25" x 17.25" sold

"Houses of Candy Canyon #5" 2024 colored pencil on saunders waterford watercolor cp 140lb 8" x 10" framed to 18" x 18" sold

"Easy Meal #3" 2025 colored pencil on 2-ply vellum bristol 12" x 16" framed to 17.75" x 21.75" sold

"Residents of Candy Canyon: Honey Clementine" 2025 colored pencil on stonehenge mounted on birch panel 12" x 12" framed to 13" x 13" sold

"Easy Meal #2" 2025 colored pencil on 2-ply vellum bristol 12" x 16" framed to 17.75" x 21.75" sold

"Captain Tony: Cayo Hueso's Favorite Storyteller and Smuggler" 2024 Colored pencil on Stonehenge paper mounted to cradled birch panel 12" x 12" $500 USD

"Endangered Blossom" 2024 colored pencil on watercolor paper 8" x 8" framed to 9" x 9" $205 USD

"Secrets Between Her and Her Shadow" 2024 colored pencil on watercolor paper 8" x 8" framed to 9" x 9" $205 USD

"Beautiful Thalassophobia" 2024 colored pencil on Arches HP watercolor paper mounted to birch panel 24” x 18” framed to 25.625" x 19.625" $850 USD

"The Sound of The Absence of Water" (2021) colored pencil on paper 18" x 24" framed to 19" x 25" x 3" $1430 USD




