With a mom who is an artist, I grew up in and around the art world.  While I didn't connect with much of the contemporary abstract artwork that I saw in galleries, I always loved my mom's artwork. 

Thirteen year ago, I met local painter, Mary Pettis, who considers herself an Expressive Realist.  The first time I stood  in front of one of her landscape paintings, I had a profound and deeply moving experience.  Mary's painting viscerally pulled me in towards it and, simultaneously, reached out and touched me. I had never felt this before and didn't quite understand what was happening. 

I knew, in that very moment, I wanted to help create opportunities for others to have this experience in their life. 

This was the moment JNK Art Partners began.  

~Art that Touches Your Soul ~