Jenifer Padilla

She a graduate of the North Carolina State University College of Design and has studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts in San Francisco, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice, Italy and La Llotja Escola d’Art in Barcelona, Spain.

Currently, she works in a renovated two-story hangar building in downtown Charleston that she shares with 37 other artists.

Her most recent paintings were focused on what’s in season right now, from poison ivy to cherries to her surroundings in Charleston. Previously, Padilla was a member of the Antfarm, a cooperative studio in downtown Raleigh. The studio was a former home to the Raleigh Washboard Factory. Its rustic, urban surroundings and the collective experience of a co-op environment greatly influenced her work.

Padilla also traveled to Barcelona, where she studied with world- renowned Spanish artists Tom Carr and Carmen Miguel. Of her journey, Padilla says, “Barcelona was the most artistic and inspiring city I have ever been to. I was amazed by all the incredible graffiti, museums, public art, architecture, mass transit, design, city planning, performance art, and landscapes.”