Dog Nose Studios (J. Higgs) has led art programs & exhibited in galleries, festivals and marketplaces throughout Canada, Japan and Poland, and currently works mainly with oil, paper, pencil and wood. Over the past twenty years, her art interests, sources, styles and mediums have greatly changed. Beginning with keen focus on photography and figurative art, Jennifer now finds inspiration in the world of modern art, which allows for greater expression without boundaries. As a multidisciplinary artist, Jennifer’s interests include working with varied types of paper, textures, upcycled materials, wood, pencil, oils and mixed mediums which are not always commonly merged together
Whether expressing a seemingly simple moment outside a window, a cup on a table, a snowy sunlit slope, the quirkiness of a cat, a face, a building, a chair or abstract shapes in bold neon colours, the key goal and challenge alike is to abandon restrictions and combine composition without fear, in ways that excite and feel true to the artist. It is not about what the onlooker judges but rather how the artist feels and how the artist makes this feeling into form that should fully guide us. As one of Jennifer’s youngest art students recently said, “The whole world should be an Art Studio.” And though this student was only 5 years old at the time, he managed, in a nutshell, to summarize Jennifer’s and many others’ view as artists.
Collaborating to support creative community events and artful programming for all ages and stages is inspiring for Jennifer (and, though previously resistant to posting her experiences and work on social media, she is finally learning to embrace this too). Dog Nose Studios is named in honour of making modern art, instinctively, as all of us do in childhood, then sometimes forget, then get scared to do, then, hopefully, return to again, instinctively.
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363 Main Street, Bath, Ontario
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