Alice Jennex

Alice Jennex is a Canadian visual artist working in watercolour, and living in Nova Scotia. Alice’s work explores self-understanding through the evocation of landscapes, combined with the materiality of watercolour paint (thin, thick, textural, and abstracted watermarks) and gestures of the human form. This work is part of an ongoing investigation which aims to elaborate on a model of emotion in self-portraiture and figurative art and explores how emotional content is generated by internal (bodily) and external experiences (landscapes).

Lush Nova Scotian landscapes are depicted within the silhouettes of figures indicating connections between community, home and nature. The intention is to connect the meaningfulness of belonging within the setting of a natural environment, a place which creates a home and raises the importance of sustainability in communities.

To convey a collage, both a landscape and a gestural, figurative drawing aesthetic are presented in intentionally subtle and spacious work. Her artworks contend with the traditional approaches and expectations of watercolour painting. Alice’s practice of creating large-scale watercolour paintings has expanded to include cyanotype collage, public art, and animation.