Bio:

Jacquelyn B. Moore (b. 1983, St. Louis, MO) is an American illustrator. She currently lives and works in Philadelphia, PA.

Her practice centers Black women within mythic, magical, and speculative narratives, blending fine art sensibilities with fantasy world-building. Through an emphasis on atmosphere, symbolism, and emotional realism, Moore creates images that explore power, identity, memory, and interior life.

Drawing inspiration from gothic Americana, folklore, horror cinema, fashion illustration, and pulp imagery, her work moves between the intimate and the cinematic. Recurring motifs such as tarot symbolism, supernatural figures, deserts, motels, moons, flowers, and occult iconography are used to construct imagined worlds that feel both nostalgic and emotionally charged. Her compositions often balance softness and unease, humor and melancholy, creating spaces where vulnerability and transformation coexist.