Studied drawing and painting at Edinburgh College of Art during the 1960's. Her tutors included Phillipson, Gillies and William Baillie and she benefited greatly from studying with a stimulating group of fellow students including John Bellany, Gordon Bryce, Kirkland Main and other now established well-known Scottish Artists.

Jennifer continued to paint throughout a successful teaching career as Head of Art and Design at The Mary Erskine School Edinburgh but decided to stop teaching in 1999 to allow time to paint full time from her home in Edinburgh. This has enabled her to exhibit more widely and she now shows both publicly and privately in galleries throughout Scotland including The Royal Scottish Academy, The Royal Society of Watercolourists, and The Royal Glasgow institute of the Fine Arts. Jennifer was recently elected Vice President of Visual Arts Scotland.

Jennifer's main interest is in landscape and how it has influenced and changed by man and the elements. She is well known for her strong colourful layered works, which show her love of pattern, surface texture and collage. The subject matter be it Venetian facades, Scottish landscapes or Spanish hilltop villages, shows strength and excitement and a love of experimentation with form colour and texture.

Jennifer travels extensively in search of inspiration for her work from Venice through Tuscany, to Morocco, Portugal and more recently Spain. These journeys are stimulating and exciting for her but she regularly returns to her collection of souvenirs and "objects trouves" and endlessly rearranges them producing witty unusual and colourful still life paintings that often challenge the viewer to unravel the subtlety of the link between title and image.

Solo Exhibitions:

2008 Pittenweem Arts Festival, Fife (Annually since 2000)

2006 Tighnabruaich Gallery, Argyll

2004 The Peter Potter Gallery, Haddington

2002 Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh

2000 Wasps Studios Patriot Hall, Edinburgh

Pelican Gallery, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary

Awards:

Plein Air Prize - Paisley Art Institute - 2007

Peter Potter Prize - VAS - 2004

Dothothy Duff - Memorial Prize VAS-2004

Lily Mcdougal Award - SSWA

Also Exhibited with:

Royal Scottish Academy

Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour

Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts

Paisley Art Institute

Society of Scottish Artists

Visual Arts Scotland