Jen Crowe is an abstract painter working in oil and cold wax. Her work focuses on ideas of emotional transition, passage of time, and connection to place. She has a bachelor's degree in Art History from Lawrence University in Wisconsin and is currently working as the Travel and Special Programs Coordinator at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

Her paintings are created without the use of brushes. Instead, she paints with squeegees, brayers, and through a paper transfer technique. With a mixture of oils and cold wax, she uses paint in an extensive layering process to create a history on the panel. Throughout this process, she focuses on the use of color, texture, and line. These elements portray depth through subtle shifts in transparency and shape. She often scrapes back into the many layers of wax and paint to reveal intricate details of color.

Painting allows her to explore shifting emotional spaces that are based on personal experience. This body of work is about the healing, excitement, and feeling of possibility we can experience when we are able to physically transport ourselves to locations of intense natural beauty that we don’t necessarily see every day.