Jennifer has been trotting around the world for decades–with her paintbrush in hand–capturing the backward glance of a mother eyeing her son in a Senegalese market, an elderly Italian woman sitting on her front stoop or children playing on the beach. “I’ve always been drawn to the figure as I’m drawn to people more than scenery. I’ve had the good fortune to live in beautiful places like Switzerland and Hong Kong, but it has always been the people that have captivated me,” she explains.
Her career started by studying studio art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She worked as an interior designer and antiques dealer after studying at Sotheby’s in London. She always continued to paint – theater sets, wall murals, wall textures, fabrics, as well as on canvas. After living in Switzerland for more than a decade, she has come home to the south and makes her home in Charleston, S.C.
Nowadays, you will frequently find her in her gallery in Charleston or in New York, where she often studies at the Art Students’ League. For inspiration, she likes to secretly take pictures of people going about their everyday life. You may be her next subject!
