Hi, I’m Jenny!

I am committed to food, family and creativity.  For half the year I am a farmer with Sundog Organic Farm - planting, growing and harvesting for my community, and for the other half I am painting - taking the richness of my life as a farmer and transcribing it into colour and form on canvas.  

My studio practice is always evolving. It ranges from large abstract botanical work to intimate still-life portraits of vegetables. Most recently I have been very interested in learning classical approaches to painting, including using techniques of the old masters especially from the Netherlands. What remains consistent in my work, whether it is abstract or realistic, is that it is always an interpretation of my day to day as a participant in the natural world. 

I am also a busy mom to three teenage boys and wife to James Vriend.