Jen Dietrich

After teaching painting and drawing for over 20 years, I retired as a university professor and started focusing on my studio practice. The subject matter is considered contemporary abstract realism; modern, loose with limited detail and various techniques.  My work is a unique combination of realism and abstraction, employing diverse media such as oil, acrylic, spray paint and wax on wood panels. 

I have lived in three distinctly unique areas of the country—Midwest, Alaska and Colorado. Each region made an impact on my subject matter. In the Midwest, I focused on baseball and barn imagery. In Alaska exclusively landscape imagery and in Colorado I produced horse imagery. Specifically, rescue horses from the Colorado Horse Rescue in Longmont, Co. Now back in Northern MN, I am consumed by the big lake and landscape compositions.