Hi, I’m Jennifer Stephens, the artist behind Nouvelle Fine Art. The name comes from our horse farm here in Loxahatchee, Florida—named after my daughter’s heart horse, De Nouvelle Vie. He’s the Chestnut King who changed everything for us, creating incredible opportunities for my daughter in the sport of Dressage. When she moved to South Florida to pursue her dreams, we decided to follow the next year. So in 2022, trading Texas for the palm trees of Florida, we bought the farm, naming it Nouvelle Farms.

Somewhere between running the farm and watching her ride and grow her own business, I found my way to the art room. For thirty years I was a lawyer with zero artistic talent (or so I thought). After my daughter was born I picked up a camera and fell in love with photography. Then came the cakes. What started as simple birthday creations for her turned into multi-tiered fondant masterpieces covered in hand-sculpted flowers and tiny edible details. People began asking me to make their cakes too, and for years I was known as “the cake lawyer.” But the move to Florida brought brutal humidity and a tiny kitchen, and the cakes had to stop.

In late 2025, I decided to try painting on a whim and I haven’t stopped since. I would wake up in the middle of the night with an idea and tiptoe into the art room/office like a kid sneaking cookies. The process is pure obsession for me, especially fluid art. I love the way the paint moves on its own, how colors swirl and separate in ways I could never plan. I’m always chasing light in every piece, that glowing sense that something hopeful is breaking through. The hardest part is always knowing when to stop….when the painting is “enough.”

My favorite painting to date is “Dreaming in the Clouds.” It actually won me my first award and I have decided that I can never part with it. It started as something completely different and slowly transformed into this soft, luminous sky—like the heavens gently opening up.