Michele Jenkinson

Michèle Jenkinson is an oil painter whose main focus is depicting landscapes in an impressionistic realist style. She has lately been focusing on smaller pieces, in which she strives to create “vignettes.”

Michèle, who grew up in New York, studied painting at NY's Cooper Union, where she received an undergraduate degree in Fine Arts. After graduating, and faced with the realization that she couldn’t pay for her art supplies, she applied to law school and went on to practice corporate law in New York City for 30 years. She then left her NY life for good and moved to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. 

For the past 10+ years she has split her time between Jackson Hole and southwestern New Mexico. She is a long standing member of the Teton Plein Air Painters, a group that gathers weekly to paint en plein air in and around Jackson Hole. 

In addition to Western Skies Fine Art, her Wyoming-themed paintings have been exhibited at the Jackson Hole Arts Association Gallery, the Teton County Library, Cowboy Coffee, and other venues in Jackson Hole.  

Her New Mexico-themed paintings are currently being exhibited at Sterling Fine Art in downtown Silver City, New Mexico, and have previously been exhibited at the Blue Dome Gallery and Soul River Gallery, both in Silver City, NM. 

Of her work, Michèle says "I feel compelled to paint in order to make a connection with nature. I constantly find myself unexpectedly struck by simple things...the billowing of a cloud mass, the quietness of a horse grazing in open pasture, the end of the day being expressed in a glorious sunset. In my paintings, I try to replicate the emotional response I have when I am experiencing those moments. I try to recreate these experiences for myself, but also hope a viewer of my work can enter my world and feel the ‘sense of place’ I have tried to capture." 

Her website at www.mjenkinsonart.com.