Ryan Jensen
Ryan Jensen
Ryan Jensen, born in the San Francisco Bay Area, moved around a bit growing up. But his earliest memories are of family and include his father, a painter, and his mother, a graphic designer, arched together over a drafting board in their in-home studio; or his father's paint-covered hands on the steering wheel as he drove his son to school.
At age twenty-one, Jensen chose to pursue a career in the United States Marine Corps and subsequently served eight years. With three, combat tours to both Iraq and Afghanistan, he gained crucial, life experiences that helped him "see the world through a different lens." After Jensen was honorably discharged, he returned to school.
Majoring in Fine Arts, in a painting class, he began to work with color for the first time. Jensen realized that his life-long, drawing background had set a great foundation for him as a painter. But it was his "deep down" desire to paint, rooted in family life experiences, that surfaced in the remembered words of his father: words about the importance of warm and cool light and broad brushwork. Now, the first things people notice about Ryan Jensen's paintings are the way he handles light and his brushwork.