Jennifer Austin

Jennifer was born and raised in Lincoln, NE. She attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and graduated with a B.S. in Biology. She has always had a passion for art, but just over the last four years started showing her work publicly. 

While Jennifer does both oil paintings and charcoal drawings, her main focus recently has been developing her expertise utilizing charcoal. Much of her current output is devoted to capturing the beauty and idiosyncrasies of the natural world.

All of her recent pieces are medium-to-larger scale drawings on paper using charcoal and erasure marks. She uses all forms of charcoal when drawing – powdered charcoal, vine charcoal, pressed charcoal, and charcoal pencils – as well as several types of erasers to create a variety of different marks on the paper.

The drawings are of natural settings intended as a pensive consideration of transformational nature and organic elegance. She vacillates between employing an expansive view and focusing on the smaller elements of often overlooked objects within nature.