After earning a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, Jenkins studied at the New York Studio School. Her work has been on exhibit numerous times with Susan Eley Fine Art and other galleries in New York City and the Hudson Valley. 

“My work combines architectural elements with contrasting interiors. The paintings explore color, texture, and light, and the interplay between inside and outside.  The architectural structure has a “conversation” with the more free-flowing, organic or ephemeral elements – the shifting patterns of light inside, or snippets of landscape glimpsed through a window or door.  In addition to the formal concerns in my work, there is a psychological goal. I intend the contrasts between inside and outside; light and dark to function as metaphors for our human experience – the inner and outer self.  Windows and doors can open on new and hopeful horizons or to the murkier unknown; panes of glass can reveal, obscure, alter or restrict vision.”