Jennifer Young's Artist's Statement

My primary pursuit as a painter is to truthfully convey the essence of Nature's beauty and endless variety through the filter of my unique artistic expression. True sight, really looking, is for me, the greatest challenge of landscape painting. To meet this challenge, I paint and draw from life as often as possible.

Painting in nature, "en plein air", I learn to hone my skills of observation and distill the complexities of a scene down to its essentials. Bringing what I've learned back into the studio, I can then expand on my ideas with varied explorations in color, composition, and format. Ultimately it is my sincere hope that through my work I can inspire a renewed appreciation for art of the natural world and for Nature herself, as well as a desire to preserve the landscape for future generations.