Jennie Kirkpatrick

Paintings

My goal is for the viewer to feel a kinship with the subjects of my paintings. I try to visually create the mood of having been there or wishing to be. Genre, people in everyday settings, are favorite subjects. If people are absent the scene or still life reflect the possibility that people's lives go on nearby. The works are heavily influenced by living and traveling in other countries. The cultures, the colors, food, customs and marketplaces leave their indelible impressions and are reinterpreted as watercolors or works on canvas that range from realism to abstraction.

Jennie graduated from University of Chattanooga with a BA in painting prior to marrying her Naval Officer husband and raising two children. During these years she earned a MFA in Printmaking from George Washington University and an AA in Illustration/Graphics from North Virginia Community College.

After living several years in Tunisia and Japan and traveling extensively the Kirkpatricks returned to Cleveland,TN near Jennie's hometown of Athens.

Teaching Art Appreciation, Drawing and Design as Adjunct Professor at UTC, Cleveland State and Tennessee Wesleyan followed.

A mural request led to studies at renowned mural and wall finish studios. After fifteen years she has now returned to the first love, painting.

Jennie has exhibited in numerous shows and several solo shows in Tunis, Tunisia, Washington, D.C., and several southern cities.