Jennifer Lynn Beaudet is an oil painter based in the Washington, DC area. She works in a representational style, painting figures, still life, and domestic objects using traditional oil painting techniques with an openness to experimentation.
Her work has been included in solo and group exhibitions locally and nationally, including her 2023 solo show It’s in the Journey at Art at Penn Place Gallery, Garrett Park, MD, and the Salmagundi Club in New York. She has received multiple Best in Show and First Place awards and is a recipient of the Denis Diderot Grant for an artist residency at Château d’Orquevaux in France.
Beaudet earned undergraduate and master’s degrees from the University of Maryland and completed the three-year Professional Master Artist Program at The Compass Atelier. Since 2018, she has honed her craft by studying with nationally recognized artists via in person and online workshops. She teaches painting in her Kensington, MD studio and at Compass Atelier and has been a member of the Portrait Society of America, Friends of the Yellow Barn, Rockville Art League, and Montgomery Art Association.
Artist Statement
I've come to believe that attention changes the way we experience the world.
Painting is one of the ways I practice that belief.
I work from observation, returning again and again to familiar subjects. Through layers of paint, expressive brushwork, and tactile surfaces, I search for something beyond a faithful likeness. I want my paintings to evoke the warmth, texture, and quiet presence of handmade objects and the natural world.
Painting is an iterative process of looking, responding, and discovering. As each painting evolves, it often reveals something I couldn't see when I began. In that way, every painting becomes both an act of observation and an act of discovery—one that I hope invites viewers to slow down, look more closely, and experience the world with renewed attention.
