Jen Dixon

An Industrial Design degree influences her abstract and figurative fine artwork, most recognisably through shape, repetition, and illustrative aesthetic. Her more than 30-year creative career has included murals, commissions, digital pre-press, sign-painting, regional displays for former US entertainment giant Musicland Group, as well as teaching art – in-person and online – to nearly 100,000 students around the world. Jen’s energetic art encompasses a broad range of topics, styles, and materials, motivated by a simple philosophy: blank canvas or paper is only wasted if it remains blank. A prolific producer, her work spans graffiti-influenced illustration, mixed media abstracts, as well as traditional techniques and subjects. She enthusiastically believes in exploring everything, and taking risks in art. Wonder, curiosity, and everyday life guide her – often autobiographical – creations. Jen’s paintings and illustrations are in private collections around the world, and have been exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions. Discipline, design principles, and raw emotion connect her favourite artists, including: Picasso, Warhol, Haring, Frankenthaler, Mitchell, Basquiat, Schiele, Twombly, Bacon, Albers, and Lanyon. When she’s not drawing, painting, or producing classes, she plays video games, nerds out on Star Trek, cooks, sings loudly, and is probably spilling tea on her shirt. She’s a book-sniffer, still listens mostly to 90s music, and will always ask to pet your dog. Jen Dixon has been using and recommending Daler-Rowney art supplies and equipment for decades, and especially loves their broad range of papers, System3, Aquafine, and FW lines of creative materials.