art galleries
acrylic paintings
"Jen Raven's work is a strange sort of realism. It's a realism of desire denied: The need for a voice, to matter, to love and to be loved. Her style is inviting enough to draw the eye back again and again, even though the message hurts. And isn't that what desire really does?" ~Adam Cosper
mixed-media collections
"Jen Raven is an amazing multifaceted artist. Her work is layered with equal parts Wisdom and Whimsy. To be in her presence is to see those qualities in action." ~Amber Calderilla
collaborations in concepts photography
"Jen Raven's work is whimsical with a dark symbolic narrative. The 'whimsy' aspect of Raven's art has much to do with what is socially taught and expected, the things of children's dreams, songs, stories and myths. But the dark symbolic narrative of her art is about facing a reality . . . a reality that the world, and the mind, are much different places from what we are taught . . . filled with contradictions, lies and deceit. Life is not a dream, but a war, and the fight is on!" ~A.S. Ashley
