Girolamo in her studio, Westbrook ME, August 2025
Jenna Girolamo (b.1998) is an intrinsic, intuitive painter from upstate New York. Currently based in Portland, Maine, she focuses on nurturing a healing process-oriented studio practice. Recently, Girolamo received her MFA from the Maine College of Art and Design (2025) after earning her BFA from Nazareth University (Painting, 2020). Girolamo’s passion lies within her growing knowledge of the spiritual realm, grounding alignment, and the connection formed with her inner self and the Earth’s energy.
Her work is a relationship with the vibrational fields of the Earth and the connection between self and nature. Through connection, attention to form, and the inquiry of space, Girolamo’s work emphasizes harmonic unity with the pattern the surface. The repetitive use of form, color, and action within the process produces a meditative experience.
Recently discovered within in her Graduate studies, Girolamo is exploring the notion of interpreting the Earth’s rhythm into physical form as a way of intentional healing. This is manifested through the arrival of geometric structures, cutting the canvas, hand sewing, addition of glass beads and the natural dye processes.
Today, Jenna Girolamo finds her inspiration within Hilma af Klint, Emma Kunz, Vivian Sutter, Helen Frankenthaler, Nature, the connection with the Universe and with others. These discoveries are continued to be explored, embarked on and expanded.