Biography

Jen attended Sheridan's BAA Illustration program before emerging into the Toronto art community in the early 2010s. Working primarily in large-format acrylics, she creates paintings that hold both simplicity and complexity; quiet compositions that invite viewers to settle in and reflect on the nature of time itself. These works manifest directly through her hands, creating more authentic and dreamlike markings on the canvas.
 

Over the course of her career, Jen's work has shifted toward the introspective moments that shape her present life as a parent. A transformative experience in her early adulthood reshaped how she moves through the world, awakening a deeper awareness of each moment's value and the gratitude for life's simplest joys. This shift transformed her practice: painting became less about arrival and more about presence - a meditative space where she explores what it means to truly inhabit time.

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Motherhood has sharpened Jen's attention to the way moments dissolve into memory, how the present becomes the past in the time it takes to notice. Through abstraction and soft layers of intentional colour, she works to hold onto that delicate blur between what is and what was, creating spaces where fleeting beauty can be held, examined, and savoured across a lifetime. Jen's mastery of colour is her way of sharing her unique perspective with the viewer. Nature has always been the primary inspiration for her work, and in recent years has become layered with the romance of everyday life.