Jen Prior is a Canadian painter working in large-format acrylic and mixed media. Her recent practice has been one of deliberate unlearning — trading precision for presence, building technical fluency in spontaneous mark-making, energy, and scale. Working with layered washes applied by hand and cloth, she developed a language of soft abstraction rooted in nature, memory, and the spirit of things just beyond what we can see.

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That foundation now underlies a new direction: intimate, figurative work that holds both beauty and dread. Paintings about motherhood, sanctuary, and the specific weight of raising a child in an uncertain world.

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She is based in Ontario, Canada.