About Jen
Jen’s artistic journey has been shaped by her background working as a hair and makeup artist in the entertainment industry as well as her deep love of colour and textile design.
These influences have provided an invaluable foundation to cultivate her own art practice in parallel.
After studying textile design in Sydney and attending printing workshops in India, Jen’s perspective has been shaped by years of behind-the-scenes experience and continues to be apparent through her aesthetic sensibilities within her practice.
About Jen’s Work
Jen’s creative path is deeply intertwined with her decades-long meditation practice, which she began in her mid-thirties.
At its core, her work is an inward exploration, as she moves between the polarities of calm and passion, discipline and freedom, she invites viewers to join her in that eternal dance between opposing forces.
Jen infuses her large canvases with spontaneous and exploratory mark-making, and in doing so, she hopes to transfer the energetic resonance of her surroundings. This process creates subtle biomorphic, organic forms reminiscent of and often found in nature. Her paintings then become portals into those experiences.
Exhibitions:
2022 – Less is More, Art Lovers Australia – Group Exhibition, Gold Coast
2021 – The In-Between, Finite Art Space – Solo Exhibition, Brisbane
Education:
2022 – Masterclass – Design Techniques, Firebird Studio, QLD
2022 – Advanced Clay Techniques – A Potters Journey, QLD
2021 – Masterclass – Hand Build, Firebird Studio, QLD
2021 – Masterclass – Wheel, Firebird Studio, QLD
2020 – Design Principals, Nicolas Wilton, USA
2017 – Intensive Colour Relationship Workshop, Merv Moriarty, QLD
2015 – Folk Art Workshops, QLD
2007 – Blocking Printing Workshop, Jaipur, India
2007 – Indigo Dye Workshop, Jaipur, India
2001 – Diploma in Textile Design, East Sydney Tafe