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"Canyon Echoes" is a composition I developed to submit to a music theme exhibit. The featured Flute Player is actually a four-inch porcelain sculpture that belongs to a friend. It's a simplified figure, pear-shaped, yet light on her feet! I did a number of watercolor sketches using this figure as a design element for a possible abstract. It wasn't working. Having recently returned from a trip to southern Utah, I was looking at some watercolors I had done at Bryce Canyon. On a whim I did a watercolor of the figure in a Bryce-like landscape using different angles and aspects. One step led to another and resulted in this composition. The sky is a nod to Van Gogh's 'Starry Night'. Sometimes "chasing themes" encourages me to paint something different, in this case a whimsical landscape.

Jane was born and raised in Stratford, CT. Her father was a self-employed commercial artist who worked at home, which gave her access to both supplies and encouragement. She moved to California in 1973. Jane has been an artist all her life, working in different mediums and working at a variety of commercial art jobs. She earned a degree in Fine Art and says there is always more to learn. She started plein air painting in the 1980’s in watercolor. Since 2010, she has focused on plein air painting in oil. She finds that all the mediums she has worked in, all the jobs she’s held, all her life experience, all contribute to this latest passion. ARTIST’S STATEMENT: The challenge for me is to capture a snapshot in time with...