Ren, a resident of the Shenandoah Valley, was born in Mississippi, educated at Belhaven College, Jackson, Mississippi. She has been an art teacher (private lessons) and has taught art education in the public schools in North Carolina.
She began her professional career in 1968 in North Carolina.
Since then she has traveled widely and has work in many collections in the United States and Japan.
She was director of the Danner House Art Gallery in Middletown, Virginia, from 1982 though 1985.
Ren's paintings are in galleries in North Carolina, Virginia, Santa Fe and D.C. area.