PROFILE

Jen Trute is a surrealistic figurative painter with a background in illustration. She created portraits in a collaborative and illustrative fashion for clients for several years and spent 15 years working as an illustrator for various advertising agencies In New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, and Orange County. She is currently working on a series of Environmental Art paintings.

Some of the agencies and accounts she created art for are:

Team one, Wells Rich and Greene, Ogilvy and Mather, DGWB, Disney, BBDO, Foote Cone & Belding, Grey Advertising, Cole & Weber, EvansGroup, Bozell, Saatchi, McCann Erikson, Young & Rubicom, J. Walter Thompson, Hewlitt-Packard, American Express, Lipton, Seagrams, Hersheys, Nestles, Maxwell House, Suzuki, Ford, Jaguar, Mercedes, Mazda, Lufthansa Airlines, United Airlines, Alaskan Airlines, Reebock, Nike, Kodak, Polaroid, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Burger King, UPS, AT&T, Taco Bell, Denny’s, Coco’s, Welches, Old Navy, Kraft, Quaker, Miller Beer, Radio Shack, Libby’s, Starbucks, Boston Markets. She is a native of Massachusetts and studied graphic design, painting and illustration at Massachusetts College of Art in Boston from 1978-1983.