Jennifer L Mohr

Jennifer L Mohr (she/her) is an artist investigating introspection, belonging, and nature in her acrylic paintings. Pushing beyond personal and found photographic reference, Jennifer creates imagined meadow scenes as a response to memory and feeling. Her paintings explore themes of self-reflection and introspection through grounding and intimate images of her beloved Prairie landscape. Jennifer holds a B.F.A. in painting from the University of Saskatchewan and her paintings have been acquired by collectors across Canada, the United States, and beyond.

She lives and works in Airdrie, Alberta.

Statement

I have been privileged to spend my formative years in a place where I felt safe and accepted as a quiet and introverted child. Solitary moments in nature were a daily part of my childhood in rural Saskatchewan and I grew to deeply identify with the prairie landscape. Although my dearest parts of this place are no longer physically accessible to me, I continue to hold it in love, reverence and respect and know that the land holds space for me even long after I have left it.

The paintings I make, inspired by the sheltered meadows of my childhood, are dreamlike versions of a place of contemplation and peace. Worries for the world and questions of self can all be brought here to a place of introspection and belonging.

In my paintings, layered meadow wildflowers and tangled grasses find arrangement that evokes grounded understanding, each brushstroke seeking to 'make sense' of life's complexities. The process of creating these works is my meditation on the visual language of nature as a balm for the soul - a quiet sorting of shadow, colour, movement and line to find harmony and clarity in the chaos of existence.