Road trip at nightfall

A cinematic landscape unfolds as a car glides along a winding country road. The countryside streams past in a rapid, impressionistic blur, with fields rolling like gentle waves and distant hills softened by a hazy horizon. The light is warm and transitional—golden hour tones mingle with deepening shadows and miles of open space, a sense of place stretching beyond the frame. The overall mood is reflective and expansive, inviting the viewer to feel the speed of travel and the quiet awe of the world slipping by.

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Jen Prior is based at her garden studio at the foot of the Dandenong Ranges, in Melbourne’s outer east.
Mainly working with oils, but enjoys exploring the process with different mediums /techniques of watercolours, drawing and photography.

After exhibiting in group shows through regional Victoria and graduating Bachelor Fine Arts, 1998.

Creating became private and a therapeutic outlet. Jen had some further illustrative opportunities in the conservation field, she studied and worked in and also a couple of small public mural works. In 2018 she won 1st prize in Art 4 All, at Fairfield Primary School Art Fair, a Bluethumb Art Prize finalist in 2022 and has exhibited across Melbourne in group shows .

Jens expressive and atmospheric inspired landscapes and skies are created out of a sense of reverence, an emotive response to the natural world. It is more about the feeling of a place, enjoying the challenge of painting subdued light and subtle tones in the half light, creating soft transitions between forms, sometimes visible other times obscure.