Jennifer Elaine "Jenny" Garant

1959 - 2025

Dear Prince Albert, we are the Dunn family, a blended and extended family with our Prince Albert roots going back to 1957. With great sadness, we share the news that Jennifer Elaine Garant, nee Dunn, born October 31, 1959, in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, died on November 4, 2025 at the age of 66 in Bloomington Indiana, where she lived with Tadd Loucks, her husband of 21 years.

Jennifer is predeceased by her parents. Frank Dunn, a former Prince Albert mayor and business owner in 1975, Pearl Dunn in 1991, and her brother Tim Dunn in May 2024.

Jenny is survived by her husband Tadd Leeland Loucks of Bloomington, Indiana, Jenny's two sons, Ryan Matthew Garant in Sherwood Park, Alberta, (his partner, Jenny Wong and their daughter, Millie). and Robert Brian Garant in Victoria, BC, (his partner Bethany Anne Garant and their two children, Esme and Henri.) and first husband, Marc Joseph Garant in Victoria BC.

Siblings include Sandra Dunn In Fairfield, California, Janis Jones In Saskatoon, Barbara Dunn In Saskatoon, Daniel Dunn in Prince Albert, Kelley Striegler In Aurora, Ontario. Frank Dunn jr. In Prince Albert, their partners and their children. We all grieve the loss of an amazing woman. We offer our love and support to Jenny's sons Robert and Ryan, whom she adored and loved, too long from afar. A posthumous celebration has not yet been determined.

Jenny was born in Prince Albert on the eve of Halloween,1959, delivered by a matador, Dr. Don Chipperfield. You must know her life was going to be interesting. She went to school in PA and in San Francisco and Calgary. She would live in Chemainus and Duncan B.C. in the early years with Marc and their sons, Robert and Ryan. After their separation, she moved to Vancouver where she would live and continue to evolve her art and refine her voice, and build her career throughout the 90's. She married Tadd Loucks in 2004 and they lived in La Quinta, California and eventually Bloomington Indiana where she died. Jenn had suffered many health set-backs in her life particularly with autoimmune issues and she was unable to fight back from this one which is heartbreaking for all of us.We have no details at this time.

Jenny was born an artist. Her early works and communication were pictograms and puzzles for nieces and nephews. Largely self-taught, as even art schools could not 'contain' her, Jenny developed and created light hearted themes, quirky characters, tongue in cheek messaging of joy and connection, for a world hungry for it. She won an award for an Expo '86 watercolor competition and would go on at the age of 27 to execute one of the world's largest exterior murals on the side of the Vancouver General Hospital building. Our Mom, Pearl parked her motorhome in front of the hospital for the good part of 6 months while Jenn worked. When she began licensing her work in the 90's, her style, genre had solidified, and her voice was well received! Jenn's work at that time exuded her humour, charm and love. Her work is everywhere - on fabrics on ceramics, wall coverings, fine china, etc. Her work is collected and shown in galleries all over the world.

A few years ago Jenny said: "You know, I never really got out of the kitchen." It was a joke for an international artist. She was referring to the prolific and popular chef / wine series which never 'gets old'. We think about the thousands of kitchens both residential and commercial..... the heart of every home and the gatherings that always gather in the kitchen because that's where the Love is....Bravo Jenny Jenn!

California and Indiana have been 'home' to Jenn for the last 21 years but she had a huge crush on New Orleans where she lived briefly and where they still exhibit her work. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Jenn donated a year's art royalties (Wild Apple Graphics) to the Red Cross for the reconstruction effort. New Orleans loved Jenn. Jenny loved them back.

Jenny's life work offered a genre reflecting light and joy, a sense of connection, even with 'her characters' (and you may be one of them) exuberant use of color, texture, and cheeky irreverence reminding us that 'art doesn't have to match your sofa'....and great art also lives very comfortably in the kitchen!

We all get to keep a bit of Jennifer....the glorious and universal bits, the light-hearted beautiful bits, the authentically imperfect bits, the loving, lasting bits...
.....and we will love you and miss you still for always and forever.