Artist Statement

Alice Jennex is a Canadian visual artist based in Nova Scotia whose work explores self-perception, embodiment, and emotional transformation through watercolour. Colour is central to her practice, functioning as an intuitive language to express shifts in mood, identity, and lived experience.

Working with self-referential figurative forms, she examines how internal states manifest through the body and its relationship to the surrounding environment. The fluidity of watercolour—its transparency and unpredictability—mirrors the instability and beauty of change. Her work often merges the human figure with elements of the Nova Scotian landscape, blurring boundaries between inner and outer worlds.

Motherhood has deepened her exploration of transformation, informing works that hold tension between exhaustion, tenderness, and growth. Her series Chromatic States reflects this ongoing inquiry through a daily practice of documenting emotional and physical shifts in colour, form, and abstraction.

Biography

Born in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Alice Jennex studied painting at NSCAD University before continuing her studies at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She has participated in residencies including Ground Rules in the Cape Breton Highlands and Luminous Bodies on Toronto Island.

Her work has been exhibited internationally in Paris, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Halifax, and Toronto. She has also worked as an art installer at major fairs in Toronto, New York, Miami, and Palm Springs. A recipient of multiple awards and grants, she recently received Canada Council for the Arts funding to create her first watercolour animation.

Recent projects include a solo exhibition at The Craig Gallery (2021), murals at the Halifax Ferry Terminal (2021) and with STEPS Public Art (2022), and presentations at the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair (2022, 2023). Her work has been featured in several publications, most recently Arts to Hearts Magazine (2024). Her solo exhibition Bloom was shown in 2024, followed by Chromatic States in 2025.