Jenny Kendler's work revolves around the theme of human beings' relationship with nature and the natural world.

All of the profits from the sale of her works are donated to environmental charities such as Environmental Defense, The Snow Leopard Trust, Tropical Rainforest Coalition and The IUCN Red List for endangered species research and protection.

Her intricate drawings and tiny sculptural terrariums show people in intimate physical relation to the environment, directly confronting that erroneous notion that we human beings are somehow separate from and above the natural world. Kendler’s subjects empower themselves through their ability to accept, understand and dissolve into nature, growing plants from their bodies, adopting manes in unlikely places, or “giving birth” to streams of tiny fish. Endangered and extinct species also take center-stage as totems of our disconnect from the natural world and sign-posts of loss. Many of her pieces deal with the fall-out of the widening schism between nature and culture, focusing on our estranged relationship with other species, and the habitats we must share.

Kendler re-imagines the Naturalist of the past through the lens of modern ecology, feminism and environmentalism. If the Naturalists of the 18th and 19th centuries sought to lay personal claim to the natural world and contain it in a specimen cabinet or book of prints, Kendler presents her intimate drawings and sculptures as a definitive counterpoint to the view of nature as something to be possessed. Her work suggests instead, that it is we who are possessed by nature.

While cross-pollinating genres: drawing, installation, digital imagery, sculpture, video, and narrative fiction, Kendler attempts to create work that connects us to the world --- intellectually and emotionally. In her works, magic, myth, and fantasy are often the lens through which we view global warming, habitat loss, the complexity of ecosystems, or the endangerment and extinction of species. She uses delicacy, fragility, ornamentation and intricacy to echo the subtle and mysterious relationships of the natural world --- to rekindle feelings of interconnectedness, wonderment and love. Her work stands in deliberate opposition to spectacle culture, the "dumbing-down" of the world, and works of failure, irony, and indifference.

Kendler believes that art has a vital role to play in our most desperate crisis between Nature and Culture, lest one destroy the other. Through her work these questions are raised: How has our environment shaped us? How should we shape our environment? And how can we shape a future that will protect and serve not only our own species, but our many beautiful and fascinating neighbors?

Presenting moments of ecological crisis or wonder, Kendler hands us this tenuous thread to the natural world --- shadowing forth possibilities of ecological attunement and resolution.