Painting
Jennifer Peart
New to Spring 2025!
Sacramento, CA
Booth 522
Featured Artist
I create visionary landscape paintings that imagine a future where all humans have re-remembered our deep connection to Nature. My work is rooted in a lifelong relationship with the land, shaped by my upbringing in the Sierra Nevada foothills of rural Northern California and a fascination with the interplay between built environments and the natural world.
Influenced by mid-century modern architecture, the realms of science fiction, and the tradition of landscape painting, I create immersive compositions that blend bold graphic elements, architectural motifs, and natural vistas. Each painting serves as a kind of portal - an invitation to reflect, dream, and reconnect with something ancient and essential.
My journey as an artist has been deeply tied to the spaces I inhabit and create. A few years ago, I designed and built my backyard studio in Sacramento with the help of my family. This collaborative project became an extension of my practice - intentional, hands-on, and rooted in care. It’s now the place where my ideas take shape and evolve.
I start my paintings intuitively, beginning with field sketches gathered on backpacking trips. Back in the studio, I research and design each composition to evolve through layered histories, nostalgic color schemes, and geometric forms - harking back to the visionary aesthetic of science fiction book jackets. My paintings have been exhibited across the U.S. and featured internationally in Create! Magazine, Women United Art Magazine, and In Her Studio, where I’ve shared more about my creative process and vision.
Ultimately, my paintings asks: What would it look like to build and nurture a world that is in balance again? Through painting, I offer glimpses of that possibility - spaces where harmony, beauty, and connection are not only remembered, but reimagined.
At La Quinta Art Celebration, I will be exhibiting visionary landscape paintings from my collection, State of Change: Visions of California, where I reimagine iconic landscapes of the state through a visionary lens. In these works, natural landmarks - redwood groves, high deserts, glacier carved valleys, emerald lakes, and serene coastlines - are transformed through layered color palettes, geometric forms, and retro-futuristic motifs. Each piece asks what it might look like if our relationship with the land shifted toward harmony and care.
This series grew out of my lifelong connection to California’s diverse environments, from the Sierra Nevada to the Mojave Desert. I begin with sketches made on site during hikes and backpacking trips, then expand them in the studio into compositions that merge memory, imagination, and design. Influences from mid-century modern architecture and science fiction imagery shape these works, lending them both nostalgia and futurism.
For La Quinta, I’m especially excited to debut new paintings inspired by the desert light and atmosphere, where stark geology and expansive skies integrate imagined structures of connection and renewal. These pieces invite viewers to step through a kind of portal - one that envisions how beauty, balance, and creativity could guide the future of our landscapes.