Artist Statement
My work is a melding of materials and approaches. Starting with a color, a shape, a photo, a doodle, sometimes an intention, the work reveals itself layer by layer. I am present to a process of listening and responding, following a thread as it weaves from one stage to the next to the next.
I pay attention to my surroundings and my longings - engaging in a dance between impulse and environment, trust and curiosity. Layers of faith and fabric, patience and paint, the pieces begin to speak their stories and I do my best to quiet my mind and listen.
I am grateful that creating helps me be with the tight squeezes in life - those places that sometimes "take you down a peg," yet reveal something deeper about you and life, bringing you down to earth, humbled, in a healthy way. There's nothing like creativity to bring a re-calibration, a re-set, a way to see things differently.
About Me
Jennifer is an artist and writer, an explorer of inner realms and the existential mystery of life. She thrives working in the richness of mixed media in her artwork, grateful for the sacred and intimate healing alchemy of creativity. Holding close to her heart the poignant reality of the impermanence of life, she values dignity for all beings in whatever form they exist.
Jennifer has a BA in Art from Maharishi International University and completed a three-year textile studies certification from Pacific Basin School of Textile Art, specialization in weaving.
She’s a longtime teacher of Trillium Awakening, a three-fold path of Consciousness, Embodiment and Mutuality, is certified in Somatic Experiencing, a trauma healing process and a certification in hypnotherapy from HCH Institute.
Additional education and teachers that have informed her art and work: Certification from the Institute of Color for Individualized Personal Color Palettes, a fourteen-day Japanese Art and Textile Tour, Shiloh Sophia McCloud's Red Madonna Year-Long Intentional Creativity Painting Program and Color of Woman Training in Intentional Creativity, Classes with Sue Hoya Sellars, and Nicholas Wilton's Art2Live Seven-Month Mentorship Program.
Gallery Shows & Speaking Engagements
Guest Speaker, John F. Kennedy University, Psychology & Creativity Class, 2015 & 2016
First Prize, Re-Imaging of Mary Magdalene, Cloister Gallery, Houston, TX, 2015
Earth Medicine Curated Show, AWE Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2014
Included in An Artist's Perspective, U.N. Commission on the Status of Women and Women’s Rights, 2014
Speaker presenting, "Strange Grace and the Dark Boon Lady," Heart Gathering Retreat, Mill Valley, 2013.
Mary Magdalene Curated Show, AWE Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2013
