J.E. Crum is a contemporary artist who creates art focusing on the exploratory qualities of the mediums of watercolor, acrylic and pastel to create abstractions of the human form, mostly of the face and hands, developing playful juxtapositions of colors and shapes within the artworks using the method of automatism. Crum tends to draw inspiration from mythologies in the narratives that evolve from her experimentations while creating portrait abstractions.