But there's nothing hard about weaving with "tape." I have two grown sons one a musician and goldsmith, the other a college student, avid outdoorsman, and a chair maker at Windsor Chairmakers.With terms like "warp" and "weft" you know this isn't a typical woodworking technique. I live in Lincolnville on a few acres surrounded by woods where I enjoy gardening and raising fowl. I work from photos and the memory and emotions from my journeys often rushing home to capture something before the mental image and feeling fade. My outdoor activities are enhanced now by the search and study of light, color, and composition. I enjoy being outside in every season, walking, hiking, biking, skiing, swimming, paddling, and climbing in this incredibly beautiful state. Over the years I have gone back to painting dabbling at times, but it wasn’t until a few years ago that a serious desire developed and now I’m becoming obsessed. My husband and I own and run it to this day. I took a job as a goldsmith/designer with Camden Jewelry Co. I fell in love with the state and resolved to live here. In the summer of my junior year, I took a job teaching jewelry making at a summer camp in the western mountains of Maine. It was an exciting time, spending days working on metalsmithing and evenings in the glass department. The popularity of glass as an art form was skyrocketing due in no small part to Dale Chihuly who was then the head of the Glass Dept and one of my professors. It was amazing to just be around and witness the hot shop, I loved the scene. Then I discovered the energy and immediacy of blowing glass and it opened I had some stained glass experience from high school which I was keen to expand on. Many of my electives were taken in the glass department. In an attempt to add more color I experimented extensively in enameling. The difficulty of mastering the technical aspects of metalsmithing before being able to realize design was intriguing and the process was both frustrating and rewarding. I attended the Rhode Island School of Design intending to study painting and or illustration but instead declared Light Metals as my major at the end of freshman foundation, something I knew very little about. Ellie O’Connell, the surrealist painter, was a close family friend and occasional teacher in her lovely studio/gallery made from a converted church. I was fortunate to have had many nurturingĪnd inspiring art teachers all my years in public schools. My mother was a painter and my father had studied landscape architecture. Being creative and making things was the cornerstone of my childhood, it was fostered, encouraged, and valued by both parents. I grew up in Fayetteville, New York, then the relatively quiet small-town suburbs of Syracuse. The artist now lives in Lincolnville, Maine, with her husband and two boys, where she paints, draws, cooks and enjoys the place she loves most…home. Jana has painted a series of watercolors titled “Mussel Rocks” which won an award in the Huston Tuttle curried show in 1991. She fell in love with the beautiful coastline and panoramic views of Penobscot Bay and the islands. In 1991 she had a one-person show at a gallery in Syracuse, New York which received rave reviews.ĭuring the summer of 1991, Jana visited an artist friend in Camden, Maine, and loved it so much that she decided to stay. She received her BFA from MICI in 1989.Īfter graduating she moved back to upstate New York and settled into the Finger Lakes region to continue her painting and printmaking career. She then decided to continue her education by enrolling in the Maryland Institute College of Art where she pursued her Bachelors Degree in printmaking with a minor in painting. Jana received an Associates Degree from Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute in 1986. In 1984 she enrolled in Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute and Onondaga Community College in Utica, New York, where she majored in printmaking. During her years in high school from 1978 -1981 at Fayetteville-Manlius she won numerous art awards for her work. The artist enjoyed the mediums so much that she continued to wider her interest in art and improve her technique. Her first love was drawing but then she began working with watercolors and acrylics. As far back as she can remember she was always creating some type of visual art. Jana was born in Portland, Oregon in 1963, and raised in Fayetteville, New York.
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