Dry Pastel, Acrylic, Charcoal & Colored Pencil
Jen is a completely self-taught Canadian artist focusing on hyperrealism.
Never having taken an art class, all of her knowledge comes from watching & studying YouTube videos and researching the internet. While only starting to dabble in art from the end of 2020, Jen's passion has been a ferocious calling geared towards animal realism right from the start.
Having worked in Animal Health Care & Rehabilitation for 15yrs, Jen's love of animals and nature far surpasses a mere fondness, it is more of a kinship with these creatures and the great outdoors.
Even as a child, Jen felt closer to animals than she did most people. Her natural bond with animals is seen and felt in her works. She seems to somehow capture their essence, what THEY are feeling at the time their photograph is taken.
Time and again, people comment on the eyes... "They seem so real, it is as if they are about to jump right out of picture!"
This is because of the countless weeks, sometimes months, Jen can spend on a painting. She studies every square inch of a photograph time and again, ensuring nothing is missed, every shadow and highlight, tint and hue is captured perfectly to convey the reality of every beautiful subject she works on.
Having just left her career in construction in 2024 to pursue art full time, it is Jen's mission to create art that everyone can afford.
Coming from a humble background, Jen left home as a young teenager. Putting herself through high school, college, working for many years for non-profits in animal care and even switching careers later in life into Oil & Gas construction.
She started at the bottom knowing nothing and teaching herself with each job and studying nights after work until she could challenge exams to become a Weld Inspector, Jen knows the trials and turmoil of striving for more when you have very little to start with.
Because of this, Jen is offering something very different to any potential customers who would like either their beloved pet or their favorite wild animal painted just for them who maybe can't afford a giant sized commissioned painting...
With her lab quality, industrial sized printer, Jen is able to offer a smaller, less expensive painting that she then photographs, edits & enhances with the help of AI to print as a canvas or paper print reproduction (from letter size up to 40"x70"!)for a fraction of the cost that it would be to paint that size by hand!