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Welcome to Jenna Greenfield Art

I am a soft pastel figurative and portrait artist based in Denver, Colorado.

There is a depth and complexity that only a human subject can bring to a piece. The entire inner world of the subject challenges to be brought out and woven into the art. The most beautiful and powerful pieces dig deep into the inner world of subject, artist, and viewer, and meld all three into a unique tapestry.

I fell in love with soft pastels in my high school art room. I was drawn to their fluidity, and the direct, hands-on approach to applying and maneuvering the medium. It is raw and intuitive- nothing between me and the art.

At 17, I was on the verge of a formal art education, enrolled in Boston University Art School, when I decided to steer my path differently. I would not return to art for about 15 years.

It has been about a decade since I slowly found my way back, and I have come to immerse myself in the study and practice of art. I have studied color and technique with the same rigor with which I once studied medicine, determined to make up for lost time. It has felt like a second chance to go back and choose art. At 17, I thought I couldn't have both. At 46, I say "Watch me."

About Jenna Greenfield

At 17, I had to choose bewteen my two loves: art and science. I was accepted to and enrolled in Boston University School of Art for the fall of 1996. But that summer, I got cold feet, and decided to pivot and go down what I saw as the safer career path. I studied biology, graduating from the university of Colorado with a degree in biology. I then went on to study medicine at Jefferson Medical School in Philadelphia, followed by residency training at UCSD in San Diego. In 2008, I moved back to Colorado, where I took a job in Denver as an emergency room physician.

It was a few years later, after washing away the last of the blood sweat and tears that still clung to me from my training years, that I opened an old box where my sketchbooks and pencils had been waiting patiently for me. I brushed off the dust, and over the next several years I slowly became reacquainted with my art.

I have now spent the last decade becoming an artist again, and I have loved every minute of it. I live in Lakewood, CO with my two teenagers, my two cats, and my small art studio, which is steadily spilling out of the corner of my bedroom, where I spend most of my free time.