ABOUT
Jennifer Reis is an emerging Canadian fine artist based in Ontario. She obtained her Bachelor's Degree in Fine Art and Art History from OCAD University in 2024. Jennifer is primarily a landscape painter with oil as her primary medium. Jennifer uses found objects like natural, unprimed wood and bark to replace the traditional canvas. Jennifer enjoys working with the wood as an equal partner in her creations. Jennifer explores the natural environment for inspiration and to fuel the context of her work. Jennifer will be advancing onward to Fleming College in the fall of 2024 to advance her academic knowledge to study Art Conservation and Cultural Heritage Preservation. Currently, Jennifer is active in the healthcare industry, working in an emergency hospital as a medical professional. In her spare time, Jennifer enjoys spending time with family and friends, indulging in horror movies and exploring different creative avenues.
Jennifer acknowledges that the land she chooses to explore is part of the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit. For thousands of years, Indigenous peoples live and care for this land. Jennifer acknowledges the territory of the Anishinabek, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Ojibway/Chippewa peoples; the land home to the Metis and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation who are direct descendants of the Mississaugas of the Credit. Jennifer appreciates the value of the land and she vows to honour, protect and preserve it.
Through my work, I aim to connect with the natural landscape, imitating the stillness and beauty around me. Through my use of unprimed collected wood as substrates, I add a sense of materiality to my work, the texture acting as my guide and base of inspiration and compositional planning. Similar to the natural beauty I perceive in the world, my work is aesthetically driven, focusing on representing the natural world and bringing the outside inside. Through my paintings, I aim to bring a piece of nature's calming and rejuvenating energy and to provide an escape from everyday chaos.”