Jenn Porreca is a modern contemporary artist based in San Francisco. Claiming marked influences from the repetitive religious iconography of her childhood, European silhouette and folklore artists of the early 1900s, literature, San Francisco Street Art, Manga, and Japonisme, she paints a delicate world of intricately layered folklore. Jenn was born in 1977 to her parents Sylvia and Anthony in a small village about two hours outside of London called Hanslope, England. Her mother was both a tombstone maker/monument artist and horse trainer, and her father a musician. Jenn spent her childhood living in places like Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and found herself in San Francisco with nothing but a backpack and passport at the young age of 21.

 
Ten years later she finds herself still living in the city that so readily embraced her, and has spent her life realizing her creative vision as it sits today. Much like a mad scientist meets creative alchemist, Jenn at times spends days in her San Francisco studio immersed in literary and visual research, piecing together her folklore, rich color palettes, and perfecting this unique method by which she produces her artworks.
 

Jenn's work has gained more recent exposure thanks to publications and online forums like Juxtapoz Magazine (May and June, 2008), Lost at E Minor, Kotori Magazine, The Philippine Star, Manila, and The Village Voice, New York.

 
Jenn's works have been shown in Europe, Asia, Canada and Australia, as well as at her international artist residency at Belfast Print Workshop.