Jennifer Vahlbruch Art

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Jennifer Vahlbruch Art

Multidisciplinary Visual Artist I'm a self taught photographer and I'm living for pictures. Look at my websites, comment, share and enjoy!

08/07/2026

Do you notice fire hydrants? I LOVE them ❤️

I honestly didn’t think they would become such a big part of my work… but somehow, they did. 😄

What began as small discoveries on the street, weathered, overlooked, full of personality, has turned into a series that means a lot to me.

The Hydrants started through photography, capturing these urban characters as I found them. Now, bringing selected pieces onto canvas feels like a natural next step: translating my feelings and their scratches, colors, and quiet resilience into abstract paintings.

I love seeing how the series keeps evolving, and I’m excited to share more of it with you.

Follow along for new pieces, or join my newsletter through the link in my profile.
And if one of "The Hydrants" speaks to you, feel free to DM me for availability.

08/04/2026

First, I found the story.

While exploring Houston, my eye was caught by a blue fire hydrant standing in front of a mural showing a dragon winding its way across the wall.

The scene fascinated me. It made me think of the dragons we carry within us, fears, doubts, and thoughts that keep running through our minds and hold us back.

I photographed that moment and titled the image “Mind Reel.”

Later, in my studio, I revisited the same story through a painting.

I translated the colors of the original scene into “Mind Reel – A1.” The weathered blue of the fire hydrant formed the foundation, while shades of pink, green, and red, along with white accents, reflected the mural and the emotions it evoked.

I applied layers, scraped away, painted over, and revealed open spaces, so that the orderly forms of the photo dissolved into the movement of thoughts and feelings.

The photo preserves the story I discovered.
The painting preserves the feeling that this story sparked in me.

Two works of art. One journey, from confronting the dragon to letting go.

Which speaks to you first: the photo or the painting?

08/03/2026

The Hydrants - Urban Soul meets Abstraction

My all-time favorite! Both the hydrant photo and the painting.

Raw and Raw-A1

It reminds me of those rare moments when we stop protecting ourselves and let the real version show. Not the polished one. Just us, as we are. ❤️

07/24/2026

My VoyageHouston interview is now online, and I’m so excited to finally share it with you!

In this interview, I talk about how art first found me through photography, how painting came back into my life years later, and how both mediums now keep inspiring and challenging each other in my studio.

I also share more about my journey from Germany to Texas, starting over, building my path step by step, and how overlooked details, rust, peeling paint, hydrants, and traces of time, became the heart of my work.

And there’s a little more in there too: I talk about my commission work for interior designers and private collectors, as well as my commercial photography for galleries, businesses, and other artists.

It feels really special to have this story featured, because so much of my art is about noticing what is usually passed by and giving those quiet details a new presence.

Thank you so much, Voyage Houston , for sharing my story.

Full interview through the link in my bio - Linktree - Interviews

07/22/2026

I don't paint to show you a pretty surface.
I paint because something needs a way out.

Every layer is a decision. Some stay. Most get painted over. What's left at the end is only what survived.

That's the part people don't see when they look at a finished piece, how much of it I fought for, how much I let go of.

This is RAW - A1. What's underneath a painting like this is never just paint. It's the layers we let show, and the ones we don't.

07/10/2026

“The hand is the window on to the mind.”
- often attributed to Immanuel Kant

In the studio, I keep coming back to this thought.

Sometimes my hand already knows where to go before my mind has found the right words. A stroke, a color, a scraped-away layer, every decision becomes a way of thinking through feeling.

For me, painting isn’t only about what appears on the canvas. It’s about what’s going on beneath the surface: memory, change, intuition, and all the quiet or overlooked things we carry within us but can’t always explain.

That’s why I love abstract painting so much. It gives the unseen a place where it can become visible.

Why do you love abstract painting (tell me and show me in the comments)? From the perspective of a collector or from the perspective of an artist.

07/09/2026

I don’t make art to decorate a feed.
I make it because something has to flow through me first.

Sometimes a painting begins with confidence. Sometimes with doubt. Sometimes with a layer that I almost completely paint over. And often, the part that ultimately holds the work together is exactly the part I didn’t plan.

What I love about painting is that it keeps me honest.

The finished work is only the visible part. Beneath it lie decisions, mistakes, stillness, pauses, frustration, trust, fun, and those quiet moments when the painting finally begins to breathe on its own.

I’m not here to create content that just looks perfect. I also want to share the real creative process, because that’s exactly where the work becomes human.

And perhaps that’s also why art is important:
not because it explains everything, but because it lets us feel something before we have words for it.

07/05/2026

Happy 4th of July!

I hope you're spending it somewhere lovely, maybe outside, with people you like, and with something cold in your hand. 🎉

07/01/2026

Canvas waiting for their first layers.

I loved the light this morning in my studio :)
These quite moments before I touch the canvas.

06/26/2026

A new commission piece is coming :)

I got the color inspiration from the client, now I'm finding the version of that in my own palette.

Layering cards out, holding them up, putting some back. It's one of those quiet steps nobody sees, but that everything else builds on.

There is something satisfying at this part. Nothing is on the canvas yet, everything is still possible.
This is really early in the process but already so exciting!

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