Jenny Freestone was born in the United Kingdom in 1950, where she earned her BA in Fine Art at the University of Humberside in England in 1988. She then worked as a lecturer Bishop Burton College and founded the Maltings Gallery of Contemporary Art and the Malting Art Press (now Quay Art) in Hull, England. In 1996 she moved to the United States, settling on the East Coast. She joined the Washington Printmakers and from 1999 to 2000 served as the group's president while enrolled at the Corcoran College of Art and Design's lithography courses. In 2001 she traveled by way of the Central Asian Cultural Exchange to Uzbekistan, studying for several months before returning to the U.S. and continuing to work as an artist and lecturer.

Freestone currently live in Maryland, where she works in etching, aquatint, direct gravure, photogravuer, and lithography. She has been a member of the Washington Printmakers (Washington, D.C.), the Print Alliance, the Los Angeles Printmaking Society, Southern Graphics Council, Washington Print Club, Society of American Artists, and the Corcoran Alumni Association, among others. She is a prolific exhibitor, participating in shows throughout the U.S. and beyond. Most recently, she was part of a 2025 group exhibition that took place at the Pyramid Atlantic Center's Helen C. Frederick Gallery in Hyattsville, MD, titled "Women Artist's of the DMV" (colloquial term for the convergence of the District of Columbia, Marlyand, and Virginia.)

Her work is included in the collections of such Washington D.C. institutions as the Library of Congress, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Georgetown University, the National Museum of American History, and the Center for Arts and Culture; as well as in the City University, Dublin, Ireland; Smith and Nephew PLC, UK; and British American Tobacco, Uzbekistan. 

A list of her exhibitions from 1992 to 2019 can be found on MututalArt.com.