Jen Workman

Jen Workman is a self educated artist whose work began in 2021. The art she creates explores the ubiquity of emotional connection and loss, drawing upon imagery from the natural world & symbolistic objects - at times channelling these through lenses of human spirituality. Across each of the mediums she uses, Jen attentively realises the variety of colours present in the world around us, drawing out the transitory hues of colour that are revealed with the movement of light. The art Jen produces offers reflections on the diversity of lived experience; shifting its focus from motherhood to more sombre themes of grief, death, and the impact of childhood trauma. Each work delves into these memories and charts the mental and physical changes that were evoked. In this way Jen’s work speaks to the past and the present, incorporating the immediacy of the experience and the mind’s subsequent reflections in art that manifests how our view on life subtly shifts with time. These works are both challenging and emotionally affirming - portraying mental health decline, but also recovery.