Originally from Maine, and currently settled on a lovely tree-lined street in Melrose, Jen Moltoni is a collage/mixed media artist and painter with no formal training. She draws inspiration from her numerous trips to beaches, lakes, and marshes throughout New England. Her collage process is simple – she paints various weights and types of paper, finding joy in the swirling and mixing of color, and then cuts it all up. Her blank canvases then become a playground of form and shape, eventually featuring scenes inspired by nature. She feels that the empty canvas space is as important as the colored pieces of her work. Jen regularly shows her work in and around Massachusetts.