Hi, I’m JennifeR Rikkers.
Jennifer’s art practice asks what happens when symbols carry memory and action becomes image. Working with mixed-media acrylics, she builds surfaces that echo layers of time, loss, and resilience. The palette and texture are chosen to evoke tenderness and urgency, with gestures ranging from delicate drips to bold swaths that mark the surface of memory. Her work foregrounds social issues and social justice, translating lived experience into visual rhetoric: a form of advocacy that invites conversation rather than closure.
Each painting begins with an intuitive impulse—often a color, a mark, or a fragment of found material—and proceeds without a fixed plan, inviting chance, improvisation, and risk. Through repeated cycles of layering, erasing, and reasserting, the pieces become maps of identity under pressure, revealing how personal and communal histories intertwine. Her life as a woman and mother—informs her choices, while her background in social work and mental health grounds her in empathy and responsibility to audience and subject. She seeks work that acknowledges complexity, honors difference, and opens space for dialogue about justice, care, and collective memory.
a little about Jennifer
I AM AN ARTIST…..
because it is the only way I know how to process the world
because I find something that didn’t exist before
because I can say a thousand things without a single word
because art gives me purpose when nothing else does
because I see meaning in the smaller things
because creation is the language my soul speaks fluently
-Petra Wolf