Barbara Krans Jenkins enjoys working on location, whether it is doing a scenic vista, a delicate Botanical study or a more elaborate painting, selecting forest floor microcosms from the abundant flora and fauna around her. It is always important to her to capture the delicate ecological balance of her subjects in their environment. She finds her subject matter from her Cuyahoga Valley home and across our land to the Mendocino headlands of Northern California.
Jenkins paintings hang in galleries, corporate and private collections here and abroad. To date, her work has been published in seven books:

Although Barbara works in oil, pastels and watercolor on occasion, she prefers the control, blending quality and convenience of the dry painting medium of professional grade Colored Pencil pigments (oil-based, water based, and/or wax based), often over fine ink contour lines. Her love of line is clear in her work. Some say that as she applies her pigments, her subjects spring to life, right off the surface of the paper!

In recent years Jenkins has become an increasingly sought after Instructor of workshops on a variety of Colored Pencil techniques across the nation, so far, teaching in TX, CA, WY, CO, IL, MI, and OH and looking forward to broadening that number!

Currently representing her original art and giclees, are The Lawrence Churski Gallery in Bath, OH, and the Luna Sea Gallery of Pescadero, CA. The Gallery of Framing in Fairlawn, OH represents a wide array of her printed works.

Barbara is affiliated with several art groups, among them, the Colored Pencil Society of America, CPSA DC 103, Chicago, IL; CPSA DC 210 in Northern CA; Akron Society of Artists (ASA, Signature member, ’94-’96: Secretary); and Scripts and Scribes (Secretary, 2000), a calligraphy group. She has also been Director of the Art Gallery of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Akron, OH for many years, building it into a well known Art venue in support of the arts locally.

ARTIST STATEMENT: Barbara finds her art process to be a renewing, healing process. As she works, she is transported to a quiet place with God. Time vanishes as she works, pondering in awe, the marvelous works of the Master Creator in nature. She says: “I hope my work imparts my passion, and reverent appreciation of our land and it’s Maker”.

Contact Barbara at bkransj@gmail.com

To view more of Barbara's work, please visit www.bkjstudio.com.