BIO

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Alice Jennex is a Canadian visual artist working in watercolour, based in Nova Scotia. Her work explores self-perception, identity, and emotional states. Through self-referential figurative paintings, she investigates how emotion emerges from both bodily experience and external environments, particularly the natural world.

Motherhood heightened her awareness of the body’s capacity for change, leading to new explorations of contemporary figurative watercolour paintings. She merges the human form with elements of the Nova Scotian landscape, using the fluidity of watercolour—its transparent layers, textured blooms, and abstracted marks—to evoke embodiment and connection to nature.

Born in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, surrounded by lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, Alice studied painting at NSCAD University, refining her figurative and observational skills. She further deepened her engagement with historical and contemporary painting at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She has attended pivotal artist residencies, including Ground Rules in the Cape Breton Highlands and Luminous Bodies on Toronto Island.

Alice has exhibited her work internationally, with shows in Paris, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Halifax, and Toronto. She has also worked as an art installer at major art fairs in Toronto, New York, Miami, and Palm Springs. A recipient of numerous awards and grants, she was most recently awarded a Canada Council for the Arts grant to create her first watercolour animation.

Her recent projects include a solo exhibition at The Craig Gallery (2021), a mural on the Halifax Ferry Terminal (2021), and a mural for a Halifax bank with STEPS Public Art (2022). She has also presented work at the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair (2022, 2023). Her artwork has been featured in publications such as Vogue House & Garden (2018), Art Seen Magazine (2022), Women United Art Magazine (2022), Friend of the Artist (2023), and Suboart Magazine (2023). Most recently, she was published in Arts to Hearts Magazine Issue 6: Celebrating Women in Art (2024), and her solo show Bloom exhibited at the Halifax Central Library (2024).

Her upcoming exhibition, Chromatic States, will be held at The Craig Gallery in Dartmouth, NS, in August 2025.