Jennifer was born in England in 1941, the daughter of an English mother and Dutch father.  She lived for many years in the Cornish fishing village of Polperro and she studied art at the Plymouth School of Arts in the late fifties.

She arrived in South Australian with her husband and two children in 1966.  In the mid seventies she joined one of the local art groups where her dormant enthusiasm for painting was rekindled and prompted her to attend tutorials by several established painters developing her skills in pastel and watercolour and having created her own individual style is conducting classes and workshops passing on her techniques to others.

Jennifer was accepted as an Associate of the “Royal South Australian Society of Arts” in 1985 and elected a Fellow in 1992.  She is a long-standing member of the “Adelaide Art Society” and is a Founding Member of “Pastel Artists of South Australia” of which she was at one time Vice-President.

She has submitted ‘Open’ and ‘Category’ First Prize winning entries at many major South Australian Exhibitions and Art festivals.  Her work has been hung in mixed exhibitions at many galleries throughout Adelaide and interstate and she had two very successful ‘solo exhibitions’ in the early nineties. Her work can be found in several public buildings as a result of acquisitive prizes and in private collections in Australia and overseas.

Recently Jennifer has concentrated less on exhibiting and more on exploring new techniques and portraiture.

Her preferred subjects include life drawing, portraiture, beach scenes, Cornish fishing villages and landscapes.  Her favourite landscapes are of the Flinders Ranges Mid-North South Australia where she visits often with a group of artists with the same love of the Australian landscape.