Contact Jennifer at hedlong18@gmail.com
Statement, History of Exhibitions, and Bio
Bringing to an art practice my study of culture and people, I find neglect and sorrows together with the places and times of solace and joy. My painting looks to colour, composition, materials, usually working with abstraction, but also realism for narrative and people. Recent watercolours of Thailand have been about colour and light through landscape study. Sculpture has referred to the organic and animal as seen through abstraction. I’ve shared my paintings and sculpture with those who have found it in the galleries and studio tours I’ve shown in and also online here.
Exhibitions: In Toronto, LVAC Gallery, October 2024, Back Lane Studios, September 2024, LVAC Gallery 2023, Riverdale ArtWalk 2022, Rebecca Gallery 2019, Back Lane Studios 2018; in Guelph, Necessary Arts Company 2016, The Art Bar 2017, Art on the Street 2017; in Toronto, Neilson Park Creative Centre 2014, Distillery District ArtFest 2006, Bloor West Village studio tour 1999-2005; in Ganges, BC, Salt Spring Artist Alliance, two Mahon Hall guild exhibitions (two juror choice awards)1997/1998; in Toronto, Rebecca Gallery 1996, Newman Gallery 1995, Music Gallery 1995, John B. Aird Gallery/The Ontario Society of Artists - OSA annual exhibition (juror choice award) 1995; York University: Samuel J. Zacks, Arthur Haberman, IDA(honourable mention)1993-1994.
Studies: BFA Visual Arts, York University 1991-1994; Ontario College of Art (now OCADU) and Toronto School of Art courses 1989-1991; Goldsmith College courses, London 1979. University of Toronto Honours BA cum laude 1980; U of T English literature MA courses 1980-1981; George Brown College General Carpentry 1982. Plus work in renovations contracting, book publishing, and post-secondary teaching.
Available recent oil paintings
Bangkok River Boat 30x24 in. oil/acrylic on birch panel 2022-24
Rustling Leaves on the Road to Pai 36x24 in. oil on birch panel 2021-24
Sihuhata, Buddha, and Friends 36x30 in. oil on canvas 2024
Mountainside Garden at Dusk 24x36 in. oil on canvas 2024
Temple Demon Guardians 24x30 in. oil on canvas 2022-24
Night Chiang Mai 24x18 in. oil on canvas 2024
She Says Let’s Compare 28x22 in. oil on canvas 2023
Echo 40x30 in. oil on birch panel 2023
Orange Tarp 24x30 in. oil on canvas 2023
Moon Shadow 28x22 in. oil on canvas 2023
By the Lake 20x16 in. oil on canvas 2022
Woods 20x16 in. oil on canvas 2023
Balancing 9x9 in. oil on canvas 2022
Punk Dance 18x14 in. oil on canvas 2023
Hope At the Rio Grande 20x20 in. oil painting 2022
Submariner 16 x 20 in. oil on canvas 2020
Chalk Horse 18x24 in. oil on canvas 2021
Mother and Newborn 40x40 in. oil on canvas 2021
Headscarf 14x11 in. oil on canvas 2023
Pink Ribbon 10x10 in. oil on panel 2023
Recruited 9x9 in. oil on canvas 2022
Into Dark 9x9 in. oil on canvas 2022
Son of the Sea 20x16 in. oil on canvas 2022
The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars 20x16 in. oil on canvas 2022
Morning Light 20x16 in. oil on canvas 2022
The Tenor 20x16 in. oil on canvas 2022
Noble Spirit 20x16 in. oil on canvas 2022
Venus Rising 20x16 in. oil on canvas 2022
Available Watercolours
Hill Tribe Village near Chiang Mai 8x8 in. watercolour 2024
A Thailand Range 12x16 in. watercolour 2024
Northern Thailand Roadside View 8.5x12 in. watercolour 2024
Hot Springs near Pai 9x12 in. watercolour 2024
Hot Spring Pool 7.5x9.5 in. watercolour 2024
Top of the Hot Springs 12x9 in. watercolour 2024
Pai Rooftops 9x12 in. watercolour 2024
A Sunny Street in Pai 9x12 in. watercolour 2024
Mountainside Garden, Pai 9x12 in. watercolour 2024
Across the Valley from Pai 9x12 in. watercolour 2024
Shishi (Lion)Guardians, Chiang Mai Wat 12x9 in. watercolour 2024
Winery Garden, Prince Edward County 9x12 in. watercolour 2024
Hotel Pool, North Bay 7.5x10 in. watercolour 2024
Calla Lilies Bouquet 1 16x12 in. watercolour 2024
Calla Lilies Bouquet 2 16x12 in. watercolour 2024
Bird’s House 16x12 in. watercolour 2024
Sculptures
Bundle 13x6x6 in./26 in. fabric, sequins, pom poms 2024
detail
Owl basswood 2023
Rabbit basswood 2023
Owl and Mouse basswood 2013
Works no longer available: selected paintings, SOLD or gifted. All work here 2014-2023.
Green Fusion oil on canvas SOLD
To Destroy oil on canvas SOLD
Greeting oil on canvas SOLD
8th Street Skatepark oil/acrylic on canvas gifted
The Lyre of Megiddo oil on canvas SOLD
Rosewood oil on canvas SOLD
The Man Who Sat Down oil on canvas SOLD
With Branches oil on canvas SOLD
Veiled oil on canvas gifted
White Room oil on canvas gifted
School Children oil on canvas SOLD
Two Cranes oil on canvas SOLD
Pink oil on canvas SOLD
Big Wave Rising acrylic/oil on canvas SOLD
Threading the Blue Duck oil on canvas SOLD
Adventure 1 oil on canvas SOLD
Adventure 2 oil on canvas SOLD
Mother and Children oil on canvas SOLD
Peace oil on canvas gifted
Twilight 1 oil on canvas gifted
Twilight 2 oil on canvas gifted
Gathering oil on canvas gifted
Study in Red oil on canvas gifted
Thunderstorm, July 13 oil on canvas gifted
Shade Garden oil on canvas SOLD
Lake at Night oil on canvas gifted
Crashing Wave oil on canvas gifted
Fountain oil on canvas gifted
Demonstrators oil on canvas SOLD
Bright Jars oil on canvas SOLD
Tulips oil on canvas gifted
Green Lattice oil on canvas SOLD
Hatched oil on canvas SOLD
Andalusian Dance oil on canvas SOLD
Pearl River oil on canvas SOLD
City Lights oil on canvas SOLD
Three Stacks oil on canvas gifted
Selected Commissioned
after Popescu, Home Series
Bouquet for film set oil on canvas commissioned and later SOLD in a fundraiser
From 1990s, selected works on paper, charcoal, ink, watercolour (nfs)
