Jennifer L Mohr is a fine art painter living and creating in Airdrie, Alberta, Canada. Her work investigates her connection with the natural world. She has a deep affinity for all plants wild and weedy and enjoys hunting for wildflowers with her family on their 20 acres of native prairie. Jennifer began learning about painting and drawing in childhood and earned her B.F.A in painting at the University of Saskatchewan in 2002. After a nearly 15 year absence from art-making, a time of transition in 2016/17 pushed her to embrace her artist identity and begin exploring her creative path.
Statement
I am a Saskatchewan prairie born mixed media artist, living in Airdrie, Alberta with my spouse and two children. I paint and draw botanical and naturally themed artworks in my home studio. I love to spend time in my yard and garden as well as grow vegetables and identify wildflowers with my family on our 20 acres of native prairie.
I make artwork with curious and playful intention. My solitary childhood on the prairie, my relationship to the land and the flora and fauna living there, and my own self-observant human experience are my main inspirations. Simultaneously painterly and linear, my artworks explore play between vibrant colour, light, and shadow and recall the experience of a thing or a place rather than an exact likeness.
The paintings I create are made in an effort to find outside of myself a genuine expression of my personal connection with nature. Since childhood, like many people, I have experienced extraordinary moments of oneness with the Earth and in those moments have been able to set my human singularity aside and feel myself as part of the steady heartbeat of the world. My botanical paintings are about recalling the feeling of those magical moments - simple, pure, vibrant, and true. The artist materials that I work with provide me with further inspiration to explore, create and discover. My ideas and process creating in this way help me to define and strengthen my identity as both a conservationist, an artist, and most generally speaking, a human being.
Licensing inquiries are welcome. Please contact me for a direct link to my gallery of available high quality images for licensing.
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