Jenny Nelson attended Maine College of Art in Portland ME. and graduated with a BFA from Bard College, where she received a scholarship to the Lacoste School of the Arts in France. For the past 15 years she has been living and working in Woodstock, New York. This past December Jenny was honored to welcome Dana Gioia, Chairman of The National Endowments for the Arts, and Congressman Maurice Hinchey into her Byrdcliffe Studio to view her recent works during their tour of the Hudson Valley. Jenny’s paintings have been shown widely in the New England and Hudson Valley regions including the Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson NY, the Chace-Randall Gallery in Andes NY and the Alpha Gallery in Boston.

"...The sheer beauty of her painterliness, the elegance of her compositions, the brightness of her palette and touch."

Paul Smart - Woodstock Times, April 2004

"These strong expressionistic oils show a respect and love of the medium;the abstractions are stimulating and yet gentle, speaking of deliberation, observation and analysis."

Phyllis Gilbert - Woodstock Times, July 2000