Artist - General Elements :
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Name : Jan Blencowe
Nationality : United States 
Artistic Activity :
Professional - Recognition Level : Confirmed Artists
Artworks displayed : 240 Artworks (USD 203,832.00)
Type of works : - Painting
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• Awards
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• People's Choice Best Professional Artist Award
I'm please to announce that I have recently received the 2008 People's Choice Best Professional Artist Award at the Tracy Art Centers pARTners in Art show. The award was generously donated by the Gui [..] >> Read More |
• News
• I'm in the MiniTop50
I just got word that my painting Reflections in the Marsh was chosen by the PaintAmerica judges to represent my home state of CT in the MiniTop50 collection. I have shipped my painting to Topeka, KS [..] >> Read More |
• Philosophy
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• Musings on Creating "en plein air" and in the Studio
I love being outdoors and so painting outdoors "en plein air'(from the French phrase meaning "in the open air") is a natural for me. There's a special something, a raw truthfulness and energy that in [..] >> Read More |
• Biography
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• Biography
Practically born with a crayon in her hand, Jan Blencowe considers visual art her first language. She has been drawing and painting for as long as she has been talking. Her formal training began in N [..] >> Read More |
• Press Coverage
• Magazine Feature
July 2006
In the winter of 2005 I embarked on a series of small daily paintings depicting everyday household items and objects from nature. That collection "The Painting a Day Project" was featur [..] >> Read More |
• Expositions (Archive)
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• Painting En Plein Air in New England
New England offers many possibilities for the plein air painter. Rocky coast lines, saltmarshes, tidal rivers, upland fields and woods. There are forests and waterfalls, rolling hills and farmland. B [..] >> Read More |
• Artist's Workshop
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• Plein Air: The Art of Painting from Life
Many people are unfamiliar with the French phrase "plein air" or "en plein air". Simply translated it means "open air" or "in the open air". At the end of the 19th century when oil paint became avail [..] >> Read More |
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