Hi, I’m Jenny.

I’m an abstract artist based in Kansas City.

My work comes back to the same idea: captured movement.

I’ve always been drawn to color, pattern, textiles, and spaces that feel personal. Long before I was painting, I was making things for our home because I could picture exactly what I wanted and often couldn’t find it. I’ve always loved the idea that the things we choose to live with can completely change how a space feels.

My path into art really began with modern quilting. I taught myself to sew through books and blogs and eventually became part of Kansas City’s early modern quilting community, helping found the Kansas City Modern Quilt Guild in 2010. Quilting gave me a love of bold color, pattern, layering, and the way textiles can hold both structure and movement.

Over time, that love of textiles found its way into painting. A lot of my work now comes back to the same idea: captured movement. I’m drawn to things that are completely still but somehow look like they could keep moving.

Fabric lifting in the air, ripples across water, folds created by gravity, even stone that somehow looks soft enough to touch.

Today I make colorful abstract work that often looks like fabric caught in motion. I keep coming back to the simple feeling of floating on water, air rushing across your hand, or watching something ripple and shift in a current.

I’m also bringing water marbling into my work. I love that this centuries old process uses floating color and movement on water to create pattern. The materials may change, but the thing I’m chasing is the same: finding ways to make something still feel full of movement.

I work from my studio at the Zhou B Art Center in Kansas City’s historic 18th & Vine district.