Jennie Petersen - Tysta inte nu

Artist: Jennie Petersen 
 

Jennie PetersenJennie PetersenJennie Petersen is a Stockholm-based artist originally from Karlshamn in Blekinge, Sweden. Working primarily with acrylic on canvas, she paints figurative and naïve portraits of women. Her work is vibrant, emotionally charged, and unapologetically unpolished. In recent years, she has also begun exploring mosaic sculpture, particularly through her ongoing series of "pajama ladies."

Jennie’s style is colorful, figurative, and refreshingly unconcerned with academic rules of proportion or perspective. Her lack of formal art training has allowed her to develop an instinctive and intuitive approach to painting. She draws inspiration from 19th-century portraiture, visits to Stockholm’s National Museum, and pioneering female artists such as Helene Schjerfbeck, Sigrid Hjertén, Vanessa Bell, Marie-Louise Ekman, and Marianne Lindberg De Geer.