Artist's Statement:
\n&ldquo\;Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.&rdquo\;
\n&mdash\; Henry David Thoreau\, Walden
\nWe are very good at loo king ahead\, looking up\, and looking for something extraordinary. Paintin g has taught me to look down and around&mdash\;to pay attention to what is already here.
\nNature rewards that kind of attention. A familiar m ountain changes completely when the evening light hits it. Wildflowers app ear beside a road and are gone a few weeks later. A garden grows\, blooms\ , fades\, and begins again. None of these things are particularly unusual\ , and perhaps that is what makes them so easy to overlook.
\nI paint landscapes and flowers because they continually remind me to notice. Natu re teaches patience without saying a word. It shows us that growth takes t ime\, that rest is part of the process\, and that beautiful things do not need to last forever to matter. A flower doesn&rsquo\;t become less remark able because there will be another one next spring.
\nThoreau&rsquo\ ;s words have stayed with me because they suggest that we don&rsquo\;t alw ays need to search somewhere distant for wonder. Sometimes it is quite lit erally under our feet.
\nThese paintings are an invitation to look a little longer at the things we pass every day: changing light\, familiar hills\, an ordinary flower\, a season that won&rsquo\;t stay. There is som ething worth noticing here.
\nArtist's Bio:
\nKeersten Jensen is a Utah-based oil painter and educator whose work cente rs on the beauty of ordinary places\, familiar landscapes\, and the small moments that are easy to pass by. Working primarily in oils\, she paints l andscapes\, florals\, and figures with an emphasis on observation\, light\ , and the traditions of representational painting.
\nJensen studied classical drawing and painting through a full-time apprenticeship at the H ein Atelier from 2018&ndash\;2025. Her background as an educator has remai ned an important part of her practice. She has taught art in elementary sc hools\, developed art-literacy curriculum\, and currently teaches private students and workshops for both youth and adults.
\nHer work has bee n exhibited throughout Utah and has received recognition in regional plein -air and juried exhibitions\, including awards from the Holladay Plein Air \, St. George Plein Air\, Murray City\, and Wasatch Plein Air competitions .
\nJensen lives and works in Murray\, Utah\, with three children\, and a self-appointed studio assistant who also answers to &ldquo\;husband. &rdquo\;
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