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Hello! My name is Jennifer and I am a painter based in Trumansburg, NY. I have a background in fine art and illustration, and particularly love when these two realms overlap. My work is mostly in watercolor, gouache and oils.

I studied fine arts at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, PA. Now I teach adults and paint, sometimes at home, and sometimes at plein air festivals.

My work can be found at Spectrum Gallery, Centerbrook, CT, Yates County Arts Center, Penn Yan, NY, and Tupper Arts, Tupper Lake, NY. I sell prints on INPRNT, and originals soon via this site. Write to me about commissions or collaborating together at illustrationjennifer@gmail.com


Exhibitions and Plein Air Events

  • Maine Fest Paint-out, Maine, NY, September 9, 2023, 2nd Place

  • River Towns Plein Air Festival, Marietta, PA, April 12 - 23, 2023

  • Hudson Valley Plein Air Festival, Montgomery, NY, October 10 - 15, 2022

  • River Towns Plein Air, Marietta, PA, April 18 - May 1, 2022, 2nd Place, Quick Draw

  • Imagine Gallery First Friday Exhibit, Skaneateles, NY, August 2021

  • Hudson Valley Plein Air Festival, Montgomery, NY, October 8 - 13, 2020

  • Adirondack Plein Air Festival, Adirondack Park, NY, July 30 - August 19, 2020

  • Be Still in Haste: Landscapes from the Night and Day Collective, CAP ArtSpace, Ithaca, NY, March 5 - 30, 2020

  • Chadds Ford Plein Air Festival, Chadds Ford, PA, February 7-8, 2020

  • Hudson Valley Plein Air Festival, Montgomery, NY, October 8 -13, 2019

  • The Finger Lakes: A Sense of Place, Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs, NY, September 2019

  • Art by the Lake, Fenimore Museum, Cooperstown, NY, August 17, 2019

  • Morristown Plein Air Festival, Morristown, NY, August 1 - 4, 2019, 3rd Place

  • Green Mountain Watercolor Exhibit Juried Show, Valley Arts, Waitsfield, VT, June 16 - July 21, 2019

  • Hudson Valley Plein Air Festival, Montgomery, NY, October 10 - 14, 2018, 2nd Place Quick Draw

  • Parrsboro International Plein Air Festival, Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, Canada, June 14 - 17, 2018

  • Paul Smith's VIC Paint-Out, Saranac Lake, NY, August 2017

  • Finger Lakes Community Paint-Out, Canandaigua, NY, June 10, 2017, 3rd Place

  • Eastern Frontier Artist Residency, Norton Island, ME, July 2016

  • Yates County Arts Council Annual Juried Show: Painting, Penn Yan, NY, 2015

  • Main Street Arts Small Works Juried Show: Painting, Clifton Springs, NY, 2015

  • Shakespeare and Friends, Bundy Museum of History and Art, Binghamton, NY, 2015

  • Illustrator Show, Artist Resource Centre, Toronto, Canada, 2015

  • Character Studies, Buffalo Street Books, Ithaca, NY, 2014

Publications

  • 805 Literary Magazine, 2017: “Chris” (illustration)

  • Children and Libraries, 2016: Text Optional: Visual Storytelling with Wordless Picture Books (text)

  • CALYX Journal, 2016: “The Wild Swans,” “Magical Mustache” (illustration)

  • Sandy River Review, 2015: “1890” (illustration)

  • Park Slope Reader, 2015: “Cafe Pig” (illustration)

Education

          Bachelor of Humanities and Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon