Beauty that touches the heart is created by juxtaposing opposite qualities. When formed and unformed elements are part of a finished painting, the beauty of a blossoming flower intensifies, standing out with greater depth and strength than if seen by itself.

I capture images of my intimate surroundings and bring them into my studio, always looking for opportunities to photograph my children and their friends in my flower garden.

My paintings have multiple layers. Like life itself, they begin with dripping and chaotic unprocessed gestures. With each subsequent layer, the image becomes more formed, until there is an intimate balance between unfinished and finished, the murky and chaotic alongside the fully realized image.

“May we exist in muddy water with purity like a lotus” – from Buddhist meal chant.
Read an article I wrote for PZI News letter.

I work with Acrylic paints, oil pastels, and plaster.

Biography: Jenny Wunderly

Wunderly grew up in Switzerland on the shore of Lake Zürich. Her interest in art drew her to New York City at age 20, when she decided to move to the United States.

After completing a degree in graphic design at California College of Arts, Wunderly worked as a graphic designer at Primo Angeli Inc in San Francisco for four years, and began painting full time in 1994.

Since 2003 Wunderly has lived with her husband and two sons in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Northern California.