Jan Gardner is a professional artist based in Conwy.
Jan loves colour! She creates vibrant `mixed media` images based on her
responses and observations and her fascination with colour, form, texture and
mark-making. Jan supplies her original, unique work to galleries for
exhibitions, numerous art fairs around the U.K and is gathering an audience
worldwide. She has received several national awards for her art-work. “Jan
shows us the magic in what we see everyday” a collector’s quote.
Jan is
always experimenting with new ideas which have been developing in her
imagination for years and are now making their way into the wonderful
wide-world. Jan studied at Winchester School of Art gaining a B.A. Honours in
Printed Textiles and A.T.D post-graduate studies. She has worked as `Artist in
Residence` in a wide range of education, gallery and health establishments. She
exhibits her `mixed media` paintings across the U.K. and worldwide including
London, England Scotland, Ireland and Wales, mainland Europe, Australia and New
Zealand
In
2007 she was awarded an Arts Council of Wales project grant titled `Colour
Secrets` to research contemporary producers` practice for the processing of
modern pigment production and also to explore the origins of her palette of
colour in history, which enabled her to explore the source of her palette and
the ancient and contemporary manufacture of pure pigment in Milan, New York and
Geneva.
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