Shauna Jenkins is a painter residing in Noosa Heads, Queensland. She primarily paints seascapes using acrylics and oils on stretched canvas. Her current style is semi abstract textured and expressive. Shauna creates her paintings from colour visions and emotions, as well as from gaining inspiration from her surrounding local beaches and rivers. From stormy skies and crashing waves to sunsets over calm seas, her seascapes capture the beauty, mystery and tranquility of the ocean. Light and colour reflections are the central focus of Shauna's paintings. She uses a mixture of textures, layers, palette knife, sponge and blending brushwork techniques
Shauna grew up in Geelong, near The Great Ocean Road, Victoria. She has always had a deep connection and feeling towards nature, noticing beauty and colour in her surroundings. The passion in her paintings stems from fond childhood memories of days spent at the beach with her family. Shauna spent much of her childhood expressing her love of nature through drawings and paintings. She experienced a great sadness as a child with the loss of her mother and is grateful to have always had art as an outlet for her emotions.
Shauna majored in art and children’s literature during her teaching degree at Deakin University in Melbourne. She became a teacher-librarian for many years, where she could share her love of children’s literature, creative writing and illustration. After moving to Noosa in 2013, with her husband, Anthony and their two boys, Shauna taught creative writing and art classes. Her passion to start painting again began to emerge from being immersed in her beautiful surroundings. In 2022, Shauna and Anthony undertook a new venture, managing a holiday resort on the Noosa River, where they currently reside - a perfect place for inspiration for her paintings.
Shauna now spends her free time painting from her home studio. Her skill and passion have grown with experimentation, patience and determination. Her canvas paintings flow freely in an uninterrupted, intuitive manner. Painting has become an essential part of Shauna's life and brings her passion, purpose and joy. Shauna hopes to share the beauty and magic of nature with others to help calm or brighten their home or work spaces.
Shauna currently has paintings on exhibit at the following local Art Galleries:
The Cooroy Butter Factory and
Yandina Art Gallery
Shauna has completed many privately commissioned paintings.