Hello, my name is Jenna Waldren and I am an artist from London, now based in Edinburgh. My work records the glimmers of everyday life, documenting the everyday, mundane, moments I experience that are so often left unnoticed. Through the process of encapsulating these moments, an almost autobiography of my immediate surroundings is formed, reflecting the transient period in which I find myself in as a 22-year-old woman.

The passages captured within my work are mostly centred around the domestic, with the subjects frequently caught mid gesture, performing everyday activities. The context of the pandemic has meant the bulk of my reference imagery has come from the Edinburgh- based flat I share with two other artists. This limitation has been an interesting challenge, forcing me to constantly evolve my work both conceptually and visually.

In recent works, I have experimented with the interplay of human presence versus human absence in these spaces, using an array of angles, viewpoints and perspectives to highlight this contrast. Working in series has allowed me to juxtapose these images against one another, creating dynamic relationships between them. Visually within my work, I am continuously playing with the balance of the graphic versus the painterly, through the means of colour, distillation of imagery and the inclusion of strong horizontal and vertical lines to divide the plane.