Jonathan Botts was born and raised in Washington, D.C. and took to drawing in early childhood.  Attending various arts programs in the area helped to develop his talent and after submitting his portfolio at the age of fourteen, he was accepted in Duke Ellington School of the Arts High School as a Visual Arts major.  At Ellington, the boy who loved drawing comic book characters grew into the young adult that loved painting landscapes. After graduating from Ellington in 2002, he enrolled at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA, majoring in Painting & Printmaking.  He earned his Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts in December 2006. 
During this time, he had begun to research his ancestry and expressed those findings through a series of landscapes and historical narratives.  Many of those paintings were featured in a month-long solo exhibit at Northern Virginia Community College, Manassas Campus in February 2008.  He has since gone on to exhibit at Richmond's First Fridays Arts Walk, Washington's NBC4 television studios, The Atlas Lofts, and the National Education Association building among other venues. 
He currently lives in Washington, where he teaches Visual Art to grades Pre-K3 to 8 at Browne Education Campus.  He also continues to work as a freelance graphic artist and fine artist generating works primarily in oil and acrylic mediums.