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Every painting I choose to paint focuses on the question... what drew me to this subject? As I move through this question, I look through a filter that asks what’s next and then go where the answers lead me. The subject may be a place I visited during my travels, I will be called to a particular photo, or a painting I started en plein aire. It may be a photograph someone shows me of a person, a child, a couple that captured a moment, an expression, a posture. But when I see it, there is a moment where something grabs me and causes me to pause. I am overcome by a stirring and a knowing that I must paint it.

I don’t choose my subjects as much as they seem to choose me. My intention is always to create an unexpected depiction of the subject, a colorful interpretation, not a literal translation. I enjoy using this unusual color palette to bring you into the painting and though, you may have seen that place before, I wish for you to feel you are seeing it through a different lens for the very first time.

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Testimonial From a Student: 

"Jan has many inspirational sayings... One is 'it's a happy mistake.' Those words have inspired me to not only not give up my painting, but to try to see when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. The other is 'bridging the pallet.' You have opened up a whole new world of color for me. I see colors around me that I never saw before." 

Susan W.