Featured Artist Series: Ren Allen

FADE Featured Artist Series highlights emerging and established artists from across our region and beyond. Each month we dedicate time to spotlight a different artist – celebrating their work, sharing their creative journey, and learning from their unique perspective. Whether you’re a practicing artist or just beginning your journey, these moments of connection and discovery are at the heart of what FADE is all about.

Meet the Artist: Ren Allen

Ren Allen is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans the ephemeral beauty of body paint and the layered textures of watercolor and mixed media. With a creative focus rooted in visual and performance-based expression, her artistry flows from the natural to the avant garde—often venturing into the world of special effects. Whether working on canvas or skin, her work explores the human face, emotional connection, and the quiet power of botanical and landscape elements.

Ren draws inspiration from meaningful connections with people, and her art becomes a vessel through which others can feel seen, understood, and transformed. Her educational journey blends self-taught exploration with formal training, leading to a practice that is as intuitive as it is technically refined.

Once a dedicated educator, Ren views collaboration as an essential element of her creative process—particularly in bodypainting, where the art itself is a shared, lived experience between model, artist, and often, photographer.

At the heart of her work is a powerful reminder:
“The hard inescapable phenomenon to be faced, is that we are living and dying at once.”