Artist Statement
I have been joyfully and creatively expressing myself since I was a child, drawing in the mud and hammering blocks of wood together in our back yard at our family home then in Terre Haute, Indiana. From those long ago days it has been a wonderful journey of learning, teaching, inspiring, and creating. A cycle that continues in my life today. The variety of Art processes and techniques that were introduced in obtaining my Bachelor of Science in Art Education Degree, opened my artistic expressions to all different kinds of media. I love to draw and sketch ideas out to near completion but the camera became my major tool of sorting through visual contemplations. When I returned to school to work on an MFA degree, I was trying to master techniques that would marriage drawing and painting with an image from a camera. Now with the digital options one can quickly change the image in value, color, contrast, texture, and composition. However, I prefer to experiment with application of light, paint, and collage before I use the camera to record the image. Thus my photographic work has an ambiguous play between reality and hand applied arrangement of media within the end print. I also enjoy real surface texture and continue to experiment with layered imagery that contains experimentation using transparencies, tooled metal, clay, wax, plaster, and paint.
I feel blessed to be an Artist. I believe Art is a portal to our soul that links all to a mutual spiritual plane of beauty and bliss.
Jennifer's Website
I have been joyfully and creatively expressing myself since I was a child, drawing in the mud and hammering blocks of wood together in our back yard at our family home then in Terre Haute, Indiana. From those long ago days it has been a wonderful journey of learning, teaching, inspiring, and creating. A cycle that continues in my life today. The variety of Art processes and techniques that were introduced in obtaining my Bachelor of Science in Art Education Degree, opened my artistic expressions to all different kinds of media. I love to draw and sketch ideas out to near completion but the camera became my major tool of sorting through visual contemplations. When I returned to school to work on an MFA degree, I was trying to master techniques that would marriage drawing and painting with an image from a camera. Now with the digital options one can quickly change the image in value, color, contrast, texture, and composition. However, I prefer to experiment with application of light, paint, and collage before I use the camera to record the image. Thus my photographic work has an ambiguous play between reality and hand applied arrangement of media within the end print. I also enjoy real surface texture and continue to experiment with layered imagery that contains experimentation using transparencies, tooled metal, clay, wax, plaster, and paint.
I feel blessed to be an Artist. I believe Art is a portal to our soul that links all to a mutual spiritual plane of beauty and bliss.
Jennifer's Website