About the artist…

Jennifer Linssen is a classically trained fine artist who has been designing and creating art for over 20 years. For the past 10 years, Jennifer has chosen to focus on textiles and sculptural vessels. She works full time in her studio in Boulder, Colorado.

Living and traveling in other cultures and the technical influences of Jennifer's early design career have helped shape her recent work. Jennifer's artwork reflects upon the refinement and harmony of fine Japanese craft, the elegance and beauty of European textile traditions, and the form and texture of American and African art.

Jennifer's "katagami baskets^©" are a marriage of basketry traditions and classical forms with pictorial katagami-style handcarved stencils in paper and metal. A fusion of metaphorical imagery and form articulate not only ideas about containment, but also the ability to conceptualize emotions and reference a certain frame of mind or moment in time.

Jennifer's design work has been exhibited internationally. Her contemporary art basketry has been in nationally juried exhibits, invitational exhibitions, and appears in publications including 500 Baskets, American Craft, the Surface Design Journal, and Southwest Art Magazine.

"My current work is about the struggle between fragility and endurance. I try to manipulate the materials and techniques as a way of dealing with this concept. The calm and refined exterior is my way of seeking harmony and serenity in life."