jennyhenderson at Bluecanvas: The Artist Network

About me

Jenny grew up in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia where she was influenced by her father’s artistic passion. With plenty of access to art supplies in the house she began drawing at a very young age. Her father always led her to draw anything that was around her; to draw what she could see. When she wasn’t doing this she was drawing out of her brother's comic books, mimicking his artistic direction.
Her father the realist painter and brother the illustrator. Growing up adjacent to these two styles of art-making, she sees her practice now as a hybrid of the two-- a sort of illustrative realism.

In 2008 Jenny graduated with a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University. It was during her four years at NSCAD that she really discovered where her main interest lies: in color. Wayne Thiebaud and Edward Hopper were two artists that highly influenced her work. Reading about them and writing about their work in relation to her own, it became obvious that color was the subject of her paintings, matter just became the vehicle. It was this discovery that led her to create her first series, Chromohomes.

Upon moving to Toronto in the summer of 2008, Jenny was the Artist-in-Residence at Toronto’s Spadina House Museum and created a series of paintings entitled Composing Toronto. One painting from this series is now part of the City of Toronto’s Permanent Collection. Jenny still lives in Toronto working at Steam Whistle Brewing while pursuing her art on the side.

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Information

Name: Jenny Henderson

Country: CAN

Joined: February 10, 2012

School: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design

Genre: Traditional Art, Painting, Architecture, Illustration, Pen and Inks