About

Jenny May was born in Huntsville, Alabama in 1980. The daughter of German parents, she was introduced to ice skating at the age of four and quickly discovered that on the ice she could combine her love for technical and  creative  movement  to  music.  At thirteen she left her family to train in Delaware at an Olympic training  facility as a national level figure skater.  Her career was cut short her senior year of high school due to  injury.  She went on to attend Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee obtaining her Bachelor of Arts, studying political science and art history. After earning her Bachelor of Arts she moved to New York City where she lived for almost ten years. Professionally, she first earned her Masters in Education while teaching full time at a NYC public school. Later she went on to earn her Juris Doctorate and practiced corporate and securities law in NYC at the global law firm, DLA Piper. In 2013, she moved with her family to Houston, Texas and has spent much of her time raising her two children. In addition to raising her two children, Jenny has dedicated her time in Houston creating art and supporting the visual and performing arts. At her children’s school she has taught monthly art appreciation lessons that begin with instruction on the elements and principles of art in kindergarten and spiral through the lower and middle school years to develop and deepen children’s connection to art and its importance in society.  

Painting is a form of creative expression for Jenny. She uses watercolors with the intention of eliciting emotions such as vitality and enjoyment from viewers. The elements of color, shape and line combined with principles such as balance and repetition are important to her. Her subject matter consists of objects familiar to her from her childhood (cotton bolls, the primary row crop grown in her home state of Alabama) and symbolic to her from her time in New York City (apples representing the “Big Apple”). Jenny’s work is held in private collections located in Alabama, NYC and Texas.