ABOUT
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Photo by James MacLean
Alice Jennex is a Canadian visual artist based in Nova Scotia whose work explores self-perception, embodiment, and emotional transformation through watercolour. Colour is at the heart of her practice—an intuitive language she uses to map shifts in mood, identity, and lived experience.
Working in self-referential figurative forms, Alice investigates how internal states emerge through the body and through its relationship to the surrounding environment. The fluidity of watercolour—its transparent layers, textured blooms, and unpredictable movement—echoes the instability and beauty of change. In many works, she merges the human figure with elements of the Nova Scotian landscape, blurring boundaries between inner and outer worlds to evoke grounding, disorientation, and renewal.
Motherhood has deepened her awareness of transformation, inspiring paintings that hold the tension between exhaustion, tenderness, and growth. Her recent series Chromatic States reflects this ongoing inquiry: a long-form daily practice documenting emotional and physical shifts through colour, gesture, and form.
Across portraits, abstractions, and hybrid figurative pieces, Alice’s work seeks to capture the quiet negotiations of being a person in flux. Each piece is both a moment and a continuum—a record of becoming, held in water and colour.
BIO
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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.
Watch a video about Chromatic States: Daily Self Portraits 2024-2025