Jen Hammond is a conceptual abstract artist from Vail, Colorado. Using a palette knife and working with acrylics and metal leafing she explores focus and symbolism in her textured impressionistic paintings. Trees have long been a theme in her life, she finds inspiration in the aspen groves of the Rocky Mountains. Her work often depicting the light through the leaves, she enjoys the symbolic nature of the trees; the rooting, reaching and growing, the imagery of the family tree, the connectedness of the groves with their shared root system, the parallels in that they are the lungs of our planet and resemble our very own lungs with their branches.

For the last several decades in Vail, Jen has framed space, augmenting, highlighting, celebrating that which was beautiful through event design, stage production, interior design, photography and fine art painting. A writer and a poet, Jen Hammond’s practice of art is her way of externalizing emotion and expressing complex human experiences.