Jennifer Marshall

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About the Artist

Jennifer grew up in country New South Wales where she developed a great love and appreciation of the Australian bush and rural life. However her first passion was for horses and this drove her to study and draw them from a very early age. She was within the top 10 art students in the 1973 New South Wales Higher School Certificate, but chose to
do a Dip.Ed. in General Primary Teaching at Northern Rivers College of Advanced Education in Lismore, (now the Southern Cross University) rather than go to Art School in Sydney. During this time Jennifer was selling works in local galleries under her maiden name of Jowett.

From 1977 until 1987 Jennifer lived in several different central New South Wales locations, exhibiting her work in local galleries and country New South Wales exhibitions, and winning numerous awards, including Peoples Popular Choice Awards. From 1988 until 2006 Jennifer lived in the Mackay region, again exhibiting locally and winning many awards including Open, Representational, Traditional, Pastel, Portrait, and Peoples Popular Choice Awards.
Jennifer was accepted as a "Master Pastellist" by the Pastel Society of Australia in 1994, and in that year and in1995 she tutored pastel classes at James Cook University’s Mackay Campus.

In 2002 Jennifer married fellow artist Ron Marshall with whom she had won the Mackay Airport Mural Competition in 1996. (These murals now hang at Mackay Tourism Information Centre.) Ron and Jennifer, had always painted similar subjects … early Australian history, landscapes, seascapes and working horses.
Jennifer also paints portraits… of horses, dogs and people. Jennifer paints in acrylic and more recently uses a mixed technique of acrylic and oils, as well as her beloved soft pastels. She and Ron now produce high quality giclee prints of many of their original paintings.