Statement & Bio — Alice Jennex

ABOUT
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Alice Jennex is a Canadian visual artist based in Nova Scotia whose work explores the relationships between colour, embodiment, memory, and perception through watercolour painting.

Working across figuration and abstraction, she investigates how experience is shaped through the interplay of body, atmosphere, and environment. Colour functions as both material and language within her practice—a way of examining emotional, relational, and perceptual states that often resist verbal description.

Watercolour’s fluidity, transparency, and unpredictability are central to this inquiry. Through layered washes, staining, diffusion, and accumulation, her paintings explore processes of emergence, transformation, and connection. Figures dissolve into landscapes, memories are reconstructed through colour, and abstract forms become sites of encounter and relation.

Jennex’s recent work has increasingly focused on colour as a relational field, exploring how proximity, contact, distance, grounding, and openness might be experienced through paint itself. Across portraits, bodies, installations, and abstract paintings, her practice investigates how colour, body, memory, and environment shape one another through permeability, relationship, and embodied experience.

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). Chromatic States, her postpartum daily self-portrait project spanned nine months, and was held at The Craig Gallery in Dartmouth, NS, in August 2025.