Jennifer Branch Biography

Jennifer Branch creates light-filled watercolor landscape paintings from her studio in Atlanta, Georgia. A modern impressionist, her paintings explore the full possibilities of transparent watercolor, a medium bringing color and light to life.

Coming from a strong family tradition of artists, she began her painting career at an early age and has painted continuously every since. Beginning by selling her pen and ink sketches before she could drive, Jennifer Branch's only profession has been that of artist. After exploring all mediums, the limitless possibilities of watercolor captured her. Primarily self taught, her watercolor style is uniquely vivid in color and concept.

Jennifer Branch's workshop series, Energizing Your Watercolors, draws artists from around the world to learn from her unique painting style. Her companion painting workshop videos inspire many artists. An article demonstrating her painting techniques was featured in Watercolor Magazine, Summer 2004, Paradise Found, The Florida Everglades.

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To balance atmosphere and technique, Jennifer Branch alternates her frequent and varied inspirational travels with periods of intense studio work. She might be found painting or sketching anywhere from a remote mountain stream to the wilds of New York City. Her swirling images of koi swimming, dramatic night city scenes, moody oceans and exquisite watercolor portraits grace many collectors’ walls internationally.

Jennifer Branch paints small jewels of paintings evoking memories of a place or time and huge color bursts of paintings filling a room with joy. Her sensuous use of color and form brings vitality to many private and corporate collections in the United States and abroad.

Jennifer Branch is a modern impressionist bringing her subjects to vibrant life on paper.

San Marco, Venice

Venice, Italy

I paint anything and everything in watercolor. My style is vibrantly impressionistic - full of color and life! My paintings show life, from the ear-to-ear grin on a child's face to the exuberant colors in a flower's bloom. There's joy in every aspect of life and I show it in my paintings.

Impressionism with a modern exuberance.

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My husband, Roger, and I; accompanied by our dogs, Casper and Lucky, and our parrotlet, Sweet Pea, hike trails, paddle rivers, climb mountains, and brave city traffic around the world to discover new inspirations for paintings.

There's a new painting almost everywhere!

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Acadia National Park, Maine

“Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.”
James Fitz-James Stephen

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"I do not know what I seem to the world, but to myself I appear to have been like a boy playing upon the seashore and diverting myself by now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay before me all undiscovered."
Sir Isaac Newton

Selected Past Events
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Sailing, our O'Day 25, Watercolors
Lake Lanier, Georgia

My dog, Casper, at the Chattanooga River, GA.
Water Dog
Louisiana Watercolor Society, 31st International Exhibition, New Orleans, LA

Edwin hard at work....

September 2011	Spent the month painting on Mount Desert Island, Maine!
2011	Watercolor murals for Southern Art restaurant, Hotel Intercontinental, Buckhead, GA. (Chef Art Smith's latest creation.)
February 2010	Chairish the Future donation of an All That Jazz chair!
2009	Book Cover painting for *Development of an Influenza Virus Vaccine using the Baculovirus-Insect Cell Expression System* by the brilliant Dr Manon Cox of Protein Sciences.
October 2009	Atlanta Skyline appears in Warner Bros movie, The Preacher's Kid.
September 2008	Posara, Italy The Watermill at Posara Energizing Your Watercolors Workshop in Tuscany
April 2008	Donation of printing rights for Sea Turtle VIII for theme painting for annual Turtlefest for Loggerhead Marinelife Center, rehabilitation center for sea turtles.
January 2008	Article about Jennifer Branch painting in Italy in Il basso Vicentino magazine Mensile di Informazione e Cultura dell'Area Berica
May 2007	Atlanta, GA Energizing Your Watercolors Workshop Atlanta Botanical Gardens
November - December 2006	All That Jazz one man show Georgia State University Library
October 28-29, 2006	Atlanta, GA Energizing Your Watercolors Workshop Atlanta Botanical Gardens
October 14-15, 2006	Savannah, GA Energizing Your Watercolors Workshop Savannah Squares
September 22-24, 2006	Murells Inlet, SC Atalaya Arts Festival
August 2006	Painting Trip to Maine, Acadia area
July 2006	Commissioned painting to celebrate Georgia Power's merger with Savannah Electric for all Savannah Electric employees.
April 22-23, 2006	Atlanta, GA Energizing Your Watercolors Workshop Atlanta Botanical Gardens
October 22-23, 2005	Atlanta, GA Energizing Your Watercolors Workshop Atlanta Botanical Gardens
October 2005	Sonoma Vineyard used by The Wine Institute for Certificate of Achievement for Sustainable Winegrowing
October 8-9, 2005	Savannah, GA Energizing Your Watercolors Workshop Savannah Squares
September 23-25, 2005	Murells Inlet, SC Atalaya Arts Festival
May & June, 2005	Painting Trip to Veneto region of Italy staying at Villa Francazan-Piovene, Orgiano
April 16-17, 2005	Atlanta, GA Energizing Your Watercolors Workshop Atlanta Botanical Gardens
April 1-3, 2005	Savannah, GA Energizing Your Watercolors Workshop Savannah Squares
October 23-24, 2004	Atlanta, GA Energizing Your Watercolors Workshop Atlanta Botanical Gardens
October 16-17, 2004	New Orleans, LA Fresh Art Festival
September 11-12, 2004	Cheaha State Park, Alabama Energizing Your Watercolors Workshop
August 7-8, 2004	Southwest Harbor, ME Art Show on The Green
August 8-15, 2004	Southwest Harbor, Seawall, ME Energizing Your Watercolors Workshop Acadia Workshop Center
July - August, 2004	Painting Trip to Maine, Acadia area
July 24-25, 2004	Bar Harbour, ME College of the Atlantic Art Show on The Green
Summer 2004	Article (10 Pages) by Jennifer Branch *Paradise Found: The Florida Everglades* Watercolor Magazine
June 5 - August 15, 2004	Painting Life's Joys one man show at ART Station Stone Mountain Village, GA
June 5-6, 2004	Atlanta, GA Virginia Highlands Summerfest
April 24-25, 2004	Atlanta, GA Energizing Your Watercolors Workshop Atlanta Botanical Gardens
March 15, 2004	Atlanta, GA Painting Demonstration & Talk, Featured Speaker Atlanta Artists Center
December 2003	Anniston, AL A Winter Market Anniston Museum of Natural History
November 15-16, 2003	Covington, LA Three Rivers Art Festival
October 24-26, 2003	Memphis, TN Experience Art in Memphis
October 18-19, 2003	Atlanta, GA Energizing Your Watercolors Workshop Atlanta Artists Center
September 26-28, 2003	Murells Inlet, SC Atalaya Arts Festival Honorable Mention
August 16-17, 2003	Kennebunkport, ME Invitational
August 9-10, 2003	Southwest Harbor, ME Art Show on The Green
August 2-3, 2003	Boothbay Harbor, ME Art Show on The Green
July 26-27, 2003	Bar Harbour, ME College of the Atlantic Art Show on The Green
July - August 2003	Painting Trip from Maine to Bay of Fundy, Canada
June 7-8, 2003	Atlanta, GA Virginia Highlands Summerfest
April 26-27, 2003	Atlanta, GA Inman Park Festival
February 15-17, 2003	Coconut Grove, FL Coconut Grove Arts Festival
February 8-9, 2003	Boca Raton Museum of Art Festival
January 25-26, 2003	Naples, FL Naples Invitational Art Show
January - March 2003	Painting Trip to southern Florida focusing on the Everglades & Keys
November 9-10, 2002	Covington, LA Three Rivers Art Festival
September 27-29, 2002	Murells Inlet, SC Atalaya Arts Festival Awarded an Honorable Mention!
2002	Stone Angel Louisiana Watercolor Society 32st International Exhibition New Orleans, LA
Spring 2002	Portrait Society of Atlanta group show Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art Atlanta, GA
2002	50th anniversary alumni exhibit group show at Westminster Schools Atlanta, GA
January 21, 2002	Atlanta, GA Painting Demonstration & Talk, Featured Speaker Atlanta Artists Center
2001	Shepard Spinal Center Mural Mural size 5' x 12' mural of Atlanta, Georgia Skyline in Shepard Spinal Center outpatient waiting room
2001, 2002	one man show at Northside Public Library Atlanta, GA
2001	Louisiana Watercolor Society 31st International Exhibition New Orleans, LA
1999	Georgia Watercolor Society Annual National Juried Show.
1998	Watercolor West XXX, National Open Juried Exhibit.
1998	The Canadian Society for Painters in Watercolor International Open Juried Exhibit, 73rd Annual.
1998	Atlanta Artists Center Galleria Gallery
1997 - 1999, 2001	one man shows at Sandy Springs Public Library Atlanta, GA
1996	First Place in Acrylics at Rockport, Massachusetts Art Association
1996	studied under noted portrait artist Paul Leveille.

“... this is an occupation known as painting, which calls for imagination, and skill of hand, in order to discovers things not seen, hiding themselves under the shadow of natural objects, and to fix them with the hand, presenting to plain sight what does not actually exist.”
Cennino Cennini

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
Einstein

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My paintings are scattered around the world in private and corporate collections. I have sold my work since I was fifteen, so quite a few people collect my work.

I do not give out the names of my collectors. I value my privacy and respect theirs.

I do not believe in "grants." Grants are mostly another name for paying for an item - in which case grants should be simple called a purchase.

Grants are generally a way to get private individuals to pay for public displays they don't want or approve of.

I do think public buildings need artwork to finish them. I think that is part of their decoration or architecture cost and shouldn't be paid for in any other way.

I don't think artists need vacations to create things on the federal dollar. I pay for vacations by selling my work!

The idea that artists must be supported by the federal government, not stand or fall on their own works' merit, is absurd. It denigrates artists and their work. Art is valuable, not something people are forced to buy by their government.

Art is part of life. Without art, our living environments are gray and dull. Art brings joy and happiness into everyday life.

I am happy and proud to be an working fine artist.

Shepard Spinal Center Mural
Actual mural size is 5' x 12'
mural of Atlanta, Georgia Skyline in Shepard Spinal Center outpatient waiting room
in memory of my grandfather, John E. Branch.

"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."
Edgar Degas

"I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters
for information about painting."
John Constable

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