It has taken me twenty years to come full circle as an artist, and I am positive I did not orchestrate my professional path in life. I have always been and artist; I just pushed it away for awhile. And now I feel like I have been given a gift, allowed a luxury, to be able to create for myself and others, and I have specifically been drawn back to printmaking. The lure for me is printmaking is cha
llenging, physical, messy, textured, layered, backwards, experimental, inconsistent, disappointing, exciting, and surprising; kind of like life. Sometimes your original intention might not be what you end up with; it might be better, it might be worse, it might be vanilla, but either way its yours to learn from, and this is what keeps me coming back. I find inspiration for my work in everyday observations of objects, communities, and individuals. I find it most rewarding to create for others and this has been my inspiration in creating local Milwaukee imagery, as well as other meaningful graphic imagery. I hope you enjoy my work as I post it to my professional page: Printworks by Jenny Kyle Smith. Follow me to keep up with my latest developing illustrations and prints, as well as places where you can find my work in the local Milwaukee area.
