Jane Thurber

Jane Thurber

email: thurberj@gmail.com

website: janethurber.com

February 2024

Jane was interested in art as a girl but began seriously studying drawing and painting about 25 years ago. After a quick dip into watercolors at the Corcoran School of Art and Design, she found the Yellow Barn Studio at Glen Echo Park, MD which became an important part of her artistic life and community. At the Yellow Barn Studio she studied with Walt Bartman, Michael W. Bartman, and Jordan Bruns. In addition, she has taken classes at the Art League in Alexandria, VA with Michael Francis and Kurt Schwarz, Jackie Saunders, and Bethanne Kinsella Cople and has participated in workshops with Danni Dawson and Robert Liberace of the Art League, Louis Escobedo and Nancy Tankersley at the Easton Studio & School in Easton, MD, and Marc Hanson of Colorado, Jill Carver of Texas, and Kathleen Dunphy of California. Jane has focused largely on still life,  landscapes and figures in oils and acrylics. Her painting style is representational with a sense of abstraction.

Jane has been juried into members’ shows at the Yellow Barn Studio and the Art League in Alexandria and has received honorable mention awards at both venues. She exhibited with friends in group shows and in a two-person show.

Jane has painted on location at local and more distant spots including the Maine coast, Massachusetts, Tilghman Island, Laguna Beach, Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, Maryland, California, Colorado, southern France, Washington, DC, and various Atlantic beaches. With artist friends she organized and ran two big events for the Yellow Barn: a “Paint to Cure” art show ito benefit Breast Cancer Awareness and Research, and the “Paint Out and Party Down” to celebrate the reopening of the renovated Yellow Barn.

Experiencing art, both in the making and the viewing, has become a very big part of my life over the last few years. For me, painting has sharpened my observations and challenged me to try to capture the light and communicate feelings in ways that don’t need words. Creating art is a most enriching struggle. The supportive and lively community of art makers and art appreciators makes it all such great fun.

-- Jane Thurber