Artist, writer, maker, mother, wanderer, wonderer…

A series of transformative experiences led Jennifer Steele Evans back to creativity as a way of making sense of the world. Through motherhood, loss, deception, and anxiety - and facing the possibility of losing her sigh - her perception of reality dissolved and reformed. Drawing, painting, dance and writing became a dialogue with her inner self, reconnecting her with the exiled child who once trespassed into forbidden gardens seeking adventure. Art became her constant - a silent, nourishing force within the chaos of change. Reconnecting with the natural world, she now embraces creativity as an intuitive, instinctive way of living.

Jennifer believes in the power of embodied creativity and its deep connection to the hidden stories within landscapes. As a contemporary fine artist and writer, she seeks to create totems of light, hope, and contemplation.

Raised in the ancient borderlands of Wales and England by Welsh and Polish parents, she has a profound connection to hinterlands - places where land, sea, and sky converge. Now based in West Yorkshire, she holds a studio at Assembly House, Leeds and has studied Contemporary Fine Art at the Essential School of Painting, alongside courses with The Royal Drawing School and Leeds College of Art (now Leeds Arts University).

In 2024, she was selected for the Ones to Watch exhibition at Sunny Bank Mills, showcasing Yorkshire’s top emerging creative talent. Before returning to art, she studied Politics and Communications at the University of Liverpool and worked in brand communication and fashion. She is also a personal trainer, a clothes maker, a mother to Seren - and a little bit obsessed with dreamy skies, rabbit holes and nature reclaiming the derelict.

C.V.

Born 1983, Llandrindod Wells (Wales). Lives and works in West Yorkshire, UK.

EDUCATION

2022-2024 - Contemporary Fine Art, The Essential School of Painting

2020-2022 - The Royal Drawing School (online courses)

2002-2005 - BA Politics and Communications, The University of Liverpool

EXHIBITIONS

2024-2025 - Winter Show, Art Roundhay, Leeds, UK

2024 - Gathered, The Creativity Cafe, Online Exhibition

2024 - Art Matters 2, Mile End Art Pavilion, London, UK

2024 - Ones to Watch, Sunny Bank Mills, Leeds, UK

2023 - Art Matters 2, Mile End Art Pavilion, London, UK

2022 - Encounters, The Creative Cafe, online