"After Matisse, Luxembourg Gardens" Painting

Jennifer paints from life, from nature, and from the heart, exploring the link between color and emotion. Her favorite subjects are the unexpected color relationships in everyday objects or those that are unique to a particular place or memory. Her work is characterized by strong color and an earnest, searching, and unpolished quality. Jennifer loves to paint while she travels and to create larger studio works from those experiences. In addition to regional painting trips in the Pacific Northwest and the American Southwest, she has worked abroad in places such as France, Italy and most recently Cambodia and Vietnam. While much art today strives for a sense of realism, Jennifer uses reality as a springboard to another place.

Native to the Pacific Northwest, Jennifer resides in Olympia, Washington. After receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a focus in oil painting from Ohio Wesleyan University, Jennifer went on to attend the University of Puget Sound receiving a Master of Science in Occupational Therapy. Since the spring of 2015 Jennifer has scaled back her work in health care significantly in order to devote herself more fully to painting.