Small things are my canvas. Designing jewelry, drawing with thread, painting the size of a postcard or on a photograph, creating short music bites and film. Something you can hold in your hands or ways to communicate beauty: this is what I love.

“When we express our creativity, we are a conduit for the great creator to explore, express, and expand it’s divine nature and our own. We are like songbirds. When one of us gives voice to our true nature, it is contagious and others soon give tongue as well.” Julia Cameron

I’m not sure when I came across this passage in one of Julia’s books, but I do remember the way I was impressed by it.  I was in awe to come across this description because I knew it was the meaning to which all my work would be held up with.  I read it again and again, I wrote it out and taped it up where I could see it, it became my spine.  I grew up always with a desire to be an artist, but for some reason or another, I struggled with letting it come into fruition for a long time.  Then I suffered deeply from a loss in my personal life, and I was awake again.  I decided that I could no longer put off what I personally knew was a gift that I was ignoring afraid of.  Life is too precious.  And I have decided I have been given too much not to share it, even if I feared not being able to achieve it.

So for me, the problem has never been finding out what I was meant to do in this life, but how to get around to living up to it.  Discovering this about myself has been like coming across a blueprint to the architecture of my dreams.  And I realize that it is rare to hold that in one’s own hands.  Being this conduit, this songbird, as Julia so eloquently expressed, is what I’m building on, every day.  A process like this is a living, breathing project, one that flows with no ending and with many mediums.  People are often perplexed, or delighted that I do so many things, but I find that everything is related and connected because it all has the same desire.

And so I’m here, proving that the purpose to life is finding our happiness, and once we find it, we gotta share it.  Welcome to my happy.

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My work has been featured in the publications like New York Times Fashion & Style page, Chronicle books, Somerset Studios, Forbes Traveler, Vogue and more. My paintings, photographs and jewelry have been shown in galleries on the east and west coast United States and sold to private collections around the world. After living and traveling in South America a couple years ago, I returned to my native pacific northwest roots and fallen back in love with Seattle, where I grew up.  When I’m not working in my studio, I’m nurturing two sweet boys (whom I often refer to as my greatest creations) and falling deeper in love with my soul mate.  He’s just the most dashing man.  So you could say that I’ve found my happily ever after and I wouldn’t correct you.

I love to hear from you! // contact me at jennyvorwaller @ gmail dot com