Inspired by nature's colors, textures and patterns, Jen LaVita loves to bring scenes to life with paint. Jen uses saturated and unexpected colors and bold brush stokes to create vibrant scenes. She works across a spectrum of styles from loose and painterly to more graphic with clean lines. Her use of color is bright, bold and happy. She draws inspiration from the beauty around her when exploring outside, time at the beach and her love for all animals and sea life.

Jen LaVita grew up just outside of Boston, spending long winters and happy summers at her New England home. She's always been an artist, with her first love being pastels. While getting a B.F.A. in Advertising Design from Syracuse University, Jen joined Army ROTC and upon graduating, left home to serve in the U.S. Army as an Air Defense Artillery Officer. After four years spent leading Soldiers, flying a blimp, and even jumping out of "perfectly good airplanes", Jen followed her heart out west to the coast of California.

These days, Jen has established herself as an artist in Los Angeles. She creates out of her studio at Grand View Fine Arts in Mar Vista and regularly shows work and live paints. Her work has been exhibited at the Santa Paula Art Museum in 2021. Jen has murals throughout the city of LA, also in Palm Springs, CA, Salem, MA and Seville, Spain. Jen has competed in the live painting competition, Art Battle, and made it to the finals. She is a live painter at various events and also with the performance group, the Night Owl Players. She has continued to stay connected with her military foundation as an Executive Board member and colleague of the United States Veterans' Artists Alliance. With USVAA, Jen has shown artwork with Warner Bros, Sony and Boeing and was featured on ABC News. Jen is also an artist with the non-profit, Access Books CA, designing and leading a team of volunteers in painting murals in lower income schools throughout Los Angeles.