is an artist and graphic designer living on a pacific coastal waterway south of Brisbane, Australia.
She exhibits prints, paintings and artists books in her solo and group exhibitions held across Australia and internationally. She has won various awards, including 'Best of Show', Rotary Art Spectacular 2008, 'Best Overall', Aveo Art Show 2010 and has work in the National Gallery of Australia print collection.
Jen has illustrated a number of books for local authors and is an active member of local artists and writers groups.
She holds a Diploma of Fine Arts from the Brisbane Institute of Art and a Diploma of Visual Communications from the Queensland College of Art.
Jen's contribution to the Personal Histories exhibition is a mixed media and calligraphy artists book made on Hahnemühle 250gsm paper entitled "The Netmaker":
'The book is about the poem "The Netmaker" written by early Brisbane poet, teacher and opera critic 'Val Vallis' (1916-2008).
Val Vallis gave permission to use his poem which is about his father, a fishing net maker who worked as a wharf lumper and fisherman. "The Netmaker" is the poet's lyric ode to the memories of his father mending and making his nets. Val died a few years ago and this exhibition is a good opportunity to remember him and his poetry but also because the poem is about his own father and the nets he made.'
