She's a local artist who paints still life, but Jenny Coker is swapping the medium for moving pictures on the international stage soon.

The Tauranga watercolour and oil artist will feature in an episode of Australian television series ‘Colour in Your Life'.

Artist Jenny Coker and Colour in Your Life CEO and host Graeme Stephenson. Photo: Tracy Hardy.

The series offers an insight into an artist's studio and delves into what makes their paintbrush move.

'I'm so excited about this opportunity and more than happy to share my art, home, and life with people,” says Jenny.

'I love sharing my passion with people and my life is bountiful.”

Jenny specialises in home and garden vignettes and runs regular workshops from her home and studio on the Tauranga waterfront.

The artist's print art is hugely influenced by her time in France and Italy as a teenager, where she worked as a nanny on the Cote D'Azur.

Jenny was a freelance architectural illustrator for more than 15 years and used spare moments to develop her knowledge of fine art.

It was the increasingly poor health of her husband in 2010 which was the catalyst for Jenny's art.

'When my husband went into care in 2010, I pondered what I was going to do with the next chapter of my life,” she explains.

'He left me eyeing opportunities to respond to life for both of us. Botanical illustrations were a favourite which blossomed into home and garden vignettes.

'Much of my botanical knowledge developed through illustrating landscape designs for commercial designers.”

The television show screens in New Zealand on free-to-air, overseas on Sky TV, Foxtel Aurora 183 and Virgin Airways.

Tauranga artists Susan Harrison-Tustain, Doreen McNeill, Timo Rannali, Nick Eggleston, Rob McGregor, and Sue Dent were filmed for the series in June.

A screen date of Jenny's episode is yet to be confirmed. Once live, the show will be free to access at: www.colourinyourlife.com.au