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Originally from Donegal, Jennifer combines her background in psychology and user experience design to create abstract paintings rooted in memory and emotion. Her work was recently screened in New York's Times Square, and she is preparing new pieces for an upcoming showcase at The Brooklyn Monarch.
Painting is a deeply cathartic process for Jennifer, an Irish artist originally from Donegal whose work most recently lit up New York's Times Square in association with Streeters Gallery.
She describes her art as an emotional and intuitive exploration of experience and memory. Working primarily in abstraction, she uses colour, movement, texture and form to express things that can be difficult to articulate with words. Her earliest memories are of spending summers at art camps, experimenting with mediums such as painting, photography and pottery, where she discovered that art could be a powerful way of communicating feelings and ideas.
Growing up in Ireland also exposed her to fashion and modelling, fostering an early appreciation for aesthetics, storytelling and visual self-expression. Her academic journey deepened her creative perspective. In 2008, she attended the National University of Ireland Galway, where she studied Psychology, Political Science and Sociology, subjects that sparked a lasting interest in human experience, social structures, equality and human rights. She later completed a Master's degree in Psychology at Northumbria University in Newcastle in 2012.
Psychology continues to influence how she thinks about creativity, particularly the emotional and psychological layers beneath the surface, including the conscious and subconscious, memory, identity and lived experience. After moving to California, she worked in educational technology in User Experience and Human-Computer Interaction, learning to think intentionally about visual communication, perception and how design shapes feeling.
Now based in Brooklyn after spending roughly a decade in San Francisco, Jennifer creates from home, painting when an emotion compels her to express it. She is not driven by rigid moodboards or fixed plans; instead, an idea lingers and builds until it must be placed on canvas, with only a general feeling or colour palette in mind, leaving room for the work to evolve organically.
Having her work screened in Times Square was a surreal milestone, made even more meaningful because her parents flew from Ireland to be present alongside friends. Proud to bring a piece of Donegal and Irish creativity to the heart of New York, she is preparing new pieces for an upcoming showcase at The Brooklyn Monarch this autumn, eager to see what emerges from this next phase of her evolving practice
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