A Passion to Create - Ryan Jensen

16 x 20” Oil ©Ryan Jensen

Art has surrounded Ryan Jensen from birth. His mother, a graphic designer, worked from her home studio producing magazine covers for software and other companies in Silicon Valley. His father, David Jensen, was a well known California oil painter. Ryan can remember being driven to school by his father who, with paint covered hands, would point out interesting perspectives to his young son. Although Ryan wasn’t particularly interested in painting at that time, it is obvious that the lessons of his father were becoming embedded and would resurface when he picked up paint brushes full time as an adult. The one constant throughout his childhood, however, was his pencil. “I was always sketching, all the time. I couldn’t help it. There were drawings all over my homework and everything else.

Two Oil Paintings by David Jensen, Ryan Jensen’s Father