Jael was raised in High River, Alberta and current resides in Edmonton, Alberta. She is a self-taught artist, primarily using oil paint as her medium. Having experimented with acrylics for a bit, she has landed on the texture and pliability of oil paint, mostly using palette knives and brushes to achieve a variety of final effects and texture.
Jael's journey in art and color is the visible expression of the musings of her unique creative mind. The passion to paint, emerged from “paint therapy” to help manage PTSD from a variety of life events. This has been a consistent theme in her works, both in the intuitive nature of her process and in the titles she selects.
Her inspiration comes mainly from emotion. Using color theory and play on shapes and textures to evoke an emotion. Some of the artists that have been influential to Jael are: Claire Desjardins, another Canadian Abstract Artist who uses bright vivid color palettes, Helen Frankenthaler and Hans Hofmann in their minimalistic from and shapes, and more recently the works of Jason Hackenwerth for his playful process of free flowing movement and application. Jael has been internationally published in ArtistTalk Magazine, both the January and April editions 2022 as well as being represented
on a digital art display in New York Times Square.