Jennifer Francis Fearon is a visual artist working in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Her paintings have been shown at  the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art,  Arts Benicia, Santa Cruz Art League, Palo Alto Art Center,  Sebastopol Center for the Arts and O’Hanlon Center for the Arts in California, Lipscomb University Gallery in Tennessee and published in Still Point Arts Quarterly.

Jennifer’s kinship with science and nature began in childhood when she escaped to the woods near her Houston home to read and draw.  The diversity of  life there  became a life-long source of curiosity and inspiration.  Weekends were spent with her grandparents, where she learned about geology, climatology and was sent to art classes at the local art museum.  Hot summers were spent in and near the water,  where she observed reflection and refraction in in pools, lakes and the ocean.  As a teenager in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,  she was immersed in  Asian art and culture.

Her early interests evolved into an art practice that includes the mineral pigments of traditional Japanese painting along with other natural materials.  This choice reflects a connection to place and a  comitment to sustainability.

Jennifer works in Marin County, California where she has lived for more than 30 years,  hiking, making art, raising a family and participating in community based non-profit organizations.  Jennifer’s formal art instruction began with Foundation Courses at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco.  She has studied painting with various artists in California and printmaking at Crown Point Press and the Kala Art Institute.  Her study of natural pigment painting techniques is ongoing through  Judith Kruger in Connecticut and Japan.  She has completed artist residencies at The Chalk Hill artists’ residency  and The Kala Art Institute in California and The Vermont Studio Center Residency in Vermont.