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With that background, it's no surprise that when young Jennifer's interests turned toward expressing herself through ar t, she would choose as her subjects those creatures she'd been so intimate with her entire life. "When you're an artist, you tend to draw what's familiar and what you love," she says. "And nature is what I'm familiar with and what I love." After earning her BFA from the University of Connecticut, Anderson says, "I identified as a printmaker. I did a little watercolor because I didn't have the equipment needed for print- making right away, and I also worked as a graph- ic designer." She and her husband Tom had three children, so she was a busy full-time mother. "In that situation, your path kind of goes all over the place until you find yourself with enough time to really create and immerse your- self in creating," she says. After living in Vermont for a time, the family decamped for Monterey where Tom took a liai- son position for the Army Corps of Engineers at the Naval Postgraduate School. "We decided to give the Peninsula a try for a year," Anderson laughs. "That was 13 years ago." Obviously, the area suited them. Their kids were teenagers then and this area offered much more for them than did rural Vermont. "And it offered me a completely different art scene," Anderson says. Although still a printmaker at hear t, (Top) "Kept Secrets." (Bottom) "Holding Space." "What I love about owls is the expressiveness of their eyes. Great Blue Herons are probably the most iconic images of my career." Although still a printmaker at heart, Anderson was recently inspired to explore new territory. Photo: Iain Anderson 136 C A R M E L M A G A Z I N E • W I N T E R 2 0 2 1