Visual artist Jenni Horne Follow.Art Card

About me

As a painter, I return again and again to the quiet, complex world of women—their inner strength, soft edges, deep histories, and silent endurance.

I am drawn to the figures who live just beneath the surface—women who keep secrets, who speak through gestures, who carry their stories in their posture, their stillness, their gaze. The birds, blooms, and symbols that surround them are not decorative—they are companions, guardians, extensions of voice and spirit. These paintings are deeply personal, but they are not portraits of anyone specific. They are emotional stand-ins. Sometimes they are me. Sometimes they are who I needed. Often, they are who I hope to become.

I grew up in southern America, where storytelling lives in the rhythm of daily life. My earliest artistic language came through music—songs at the piano, hymns in the sanctuary, harmonies around the kitchen table. I now paint with that same rhythm, layering color and meaning, carving form out of memory and emotion. My work is rooted in narrative, but it is also an act of release: letting go of perfection, of literalism, and allowing the intuitive and symbolic to lead.

My figurative work continues to speak to the weight and wonder of being human, of being female, of being full of feeling in a world that often rushes past it. These paintings are offerings—quiet declarations of beauty, grief, grace, and strength. They are for the keepers, the dreamers, the soft and the brave.