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I’m a Nova Scotia artist creating layered, expressive portraits that lean into tension, tenderness, and the beautifully messy business of being human. My work is rooted in a lifelong pull toward faces — the stories they hold, the emotions they reveal, the contradictions they can’t quite hide.

Artist Jen Worden in her lakeside Nova Scotia studio, reflecting her focus on expressive, emotionally honest portraiture.

Art has been a life-long obsession. It keeps me sane.

I paint the way people feel: raw in places, tender in others, sometimes fierce, sometimes weary, always honest. I’m drawn to colour that hums with emotion, mark‑making that stays a little wild, and the kind of expression that tells you more than words ever could.

After years of raising a family, farming, building a business and forever making things I now paint full‑time from our lakeside home in rural Nova Scotia — a place that keeps me grounded, curious, and always reaching for the next portrait.

If you’re here, WELCOME. I hope you find something in my work that feels familiar, challenging, or simply human.