Travel is an important part of Renee's life and through this pastime, she found herself overwhelmingly drawn to art museums and art shows. In 2002, during a trip to the Impressionist artist's Musee' D'Orsay in Paris with her daughters, Lauren and Jane, Renee realized that she needed to pick up a brush and learn to paint the people and images that she thought were important. Upon returning home, Renee set upon a primarily self-taught course in oil painting and has been happily rendering lifelike images every day since then.

Renee Palmer-Jones is best described as a "painter's painter" because there is no limit to the subject matter she will approach on canvas. She is diverse in the purest sense, and conveys many styles of art in her work.

She calls her contemporary work "Organic Abstract" due to the vivid color, motion and energy they convey. Her figurative and landscape work is often called "Contemporary Realism". Renee's world-wide travels allow her to view, photograph and recreate exciting images of people, animals and exotic cultures which she renders into startling oil paintings. Art viewers will identify two distinctly different styles of painting; one which is acutely detailed and accurate while the other is suggested by free brush strokes and ethereal feelings.

Renee has since studied under the tutelage of master painters R.S .Riddick, Phil Beck, Kim English, Ron Hicks, Robert Lemler, Joni Falk and Linda Glover Gooch at the Scottsdale Artists School and the Art Student's League of Denver.

Renee is a former member of the North Valley Plein Air Painter’s league, the Sonoran Arts League in Carefree, AZ, and the FLAIR art group in Anthem, AZ, and a founding board member of the Arts Council of the North Valley.

Renee Palmer-Jones holds a master's degree in Nonprofit Management from Regis University and devotes a great deal of time to the promotion of Native American art and culture. She has served on many nonprofit Boards of Directors including the Colorado Endowment for the Humanities, the Lupus Foundation of Colorado, and was a founding member of the Tesoro Foundation among others.

Through her work with the Tesoro Foundation in Morrison, Colorado, Renee became acutely aware of the crisis of Native American artisans who are struggling to preserve the traditional culture and artistic practices of the American Indian. Much of Renee's art is dedicated to honoring the importance of Native Americans in today's society and in western history and art viewers will detect a common thread of this theme in her work. She is also an historian at heart, and works to bring the western cowboy to life.