“No self-taught artist, she attended The Rochester Museum Art School, Buffalo State Teacher’s College and the Albright Art School. Her sure sense of composition and of linear decoration bespeaks a thorough grounding in design principles. Yet her distinctive kind of whimsy wasn’t learned. It comes naturally. Her effervescent personality had to have an outlet. She chose art.” – The Christian Science Monitor
Whimsical original one-of-a-kind paintings in acrylic plus a very limited number of encaustic paintings from the artist’s private collections
Jan is an 86-year-old artist who has been painting all her life. She has won many juried awards and top popular vote awards and has had three one-woman exhibits in various galleries. She also has been in invitational and exhibits in a verity of locations including the deCordova Art Museum Two Day Art Fair, deCordova Show House Exhibits, and Art Festivals throughout New England. She received the Eli Goldstone Award at the Cambridge Art Association Annual Show and a Purchase Prize in the Portland, Maine Art Festival Winner’s Circle.