Jenny Johannsen is an abstract artist based in Kansas City, Missouri. Her current work brings together her love of textiles, color, texture, and the way art can capture a moment.

Jenny's path to art began with modern quilting. As a self-taught artist, she learned to sew through books and blogs before serving as a founding board member of the Kansas City Modern Quilt Guild in 2010. Here she gained a front-row view of a movement shaped by bold color, graphic design, community, and fresh interpretations of tradition. Quilting gave her a foundation in fabric, color, composition, precision, and improvisation.

After years of working with textiles and creating quilts, Jenny expanded her practice into painting. Drawn to the vibrancy and unpredictability of ink, she began experimenting with its fluid nature and gradually developed techniques to guide its movement and preserve its color.

After exploring multiple mediums, Jenny has found a way to bring her love of textiles and painting together. Using ink, she creates fabric-like surfaces that are pressed into forms that resemble folded material floating in water or air. Her work captures the beauty of a fleeting moment, using color, movement, and visual texture to create paintings that feel soft, dimensional, and almost touchable.