Jennifer Duncan

Using water-based media and hand-painted collage paper, my paintings and assemblages often sit on the line between representation and abstraction. All are reflections of my direct observations from the world around me or memories of those observations. I am drawn to repetitive patterns, visual texture and unusual or strong lines – all part of the chaotic rhythms found in nature. I approach each painting with spontaneity and the conscious objective of opening myself up to the unexpected. The painting grows naturally through a process of mark-making and painting, layering bright swaths of color and gestural drawing - adding and eliminating. My goal is to utilize the back-and-forth nature of my process to construct an interesting and complex painting for the mind to wander through. Bio: Jennifer Duncan is a visual artist based in Northern Virginia. Living just outside, Washington, DC, Duncan’s early art education included many visits to the National Galleries, high school courses in Calligraphy and a Commercial Art degree certificate from the Arlington Career Center. Her commitment to include art in her career continued as she pursued a BSW with a minor in Studio Arts and she studied at the McGuffey Art Center in Charlottesville, VA while obtaining her MSW at VCU in Richmond, VA. Duncan has utilized her art in her career as a clinical social worker, as co-owner of a small business which designed and created specialty paint finishes and, over the past 14 years as a teacher at the Great Falls School of Art, the Yellow Barn Studios in Glen Echo, MD and in her home studio. Duncan’s paintings have appeared in various juried and solo exhibits and are in private and corporate collections in the US, Peru, Italy and Chile.