Check out this interview with me on Art Closeup Magazine
https://www.artistcloseup.com/blog/interview-jennifer-stratton
About Jennifer
Jennifer Stratton is a visual artist and expressive/creative arts educator. She is also a musician and does face painting on the side. She lives with her husband in Hyannis, MA.
Jennifer began drawing and painting at a very young age and took private and group lessons from various New Jersey artists. She received the Art Prize upon graduating from high school but contrary to the expectations of her family and friends went on to study organic agriculture at college. Her studies brought her overseas, where she lived and worked in Papua New Guinea, Israel, and Brazil.
Back in the United States, some personal challenges brought about a reconnection with art. Her new approach to artistic expression reflected a deeper connection to herself and the life force around her, manifesting in a unique, expressive style. She began to exhibit her work publicly in 1998 and has sold many paintings since then.
Jennifer’s experience with the healing powers of expressive art developed into a strong desire to help others tune in to their own creative gifts. In 2009 she received her Certificate of Graduate Studies for the Professional Application of Expressive Arts for Healing at Salve Regina University in Newport, R.I
Since then she has been working with different organizations, groups and individuals using expressive arts as a way for people to deepen their own connection to their creativity.
Exhibitions
Giving Tree Art Gallery, Sandwich, MA. – 1998
Borders Book Store, Hyannis ,MA. - Dec. 1999
Juried Art Show, Town Hall Gallery, Orleans,MA. – May, 1999
Framing Gallery, Orleans, MA.,emerging artist show – July, 2001
The Gallery at the Presbyterian Church of Franklin Lakes, N.J -Nov. 2001, March 2002, January 2005.
Marion Crane Room Gallery at Snow Library, Orleans,MA. – April 2002
Unitarian Church, Brewster, MA. – Oct. 2002
Wellfleet Library Gallery, Wellfleet, MA. – March 2003
The Guyer Barn, Hyannis, MA. – Oct. 2004, May 2006
Greater fall River art Association, Fall River,MA. – April 2007
Brewster Ladies library, Brewster,MA. – May 2007, Dec. 2012, April 2018, May 2022
Starbucks at Mashpee Commons, Mashpee, MA. – August 2008
Cape Cup, Orleans, MA – one show a year since 2006
Art Shanties at Hyannis Harbor, Hyannis, MA – August – Sept. 2010
Black Crow Gallery, Sandwich, MA. – June 2010
Hyannis Airport Gallery, April 2019 - 2020
Bennett Gallery and Framing, Hyannis, MA. 2018-present
Cape Cod Media Center, Dennis, MA- February 2022
Many of Jennifer’s paintings are now part of private collections.
Awards & Accomplishments
1..Juried Art Show @ Town Hall Gallery, Orleans, MA 2007 Honorable Mention, “Red Moon Rising”, Watercolor
2. Contest through Champion Press- 1st prize, Art work on cover of “Starving Family Companion Workbook” by Dr. Cheryl Dellasaga. Published in 2005
3. Fall River Art Association Regional Annual Juried Show in 2007 - 2nd place for”Desert Scene” Watercolor
4.”Tree People”, watercolor published in We Moon 2003 on page 184
5. Write up in December 2012 issue of Prime Time Cape Cod. The article as titled “The Art of Healing”
6. Music CD, “Fly High” completed in 2011
7. My song “Magic:” won 3rd place in Eventide Arts Songfest 2011