Artwork by Jan Rowland
Jan Rowland Biography
Australian born, Jan Rowland is primarily a painter now but was formally a ceramicist. She gained her BFA from Newcastle School of Art and Newcastle University (Australia) then continued with ceramic studies for two years at Canberra School of Art.
She taught High School students for twelve years before marrying a US Foreign Service Officer and taking off around the world, however leaving her potters wheel in Australia.
Currently she is a resident artist at City Line studios attached to Friendship Heights Village Center, MD and previously was at Glen Echo Park as a resident artist for three years. Her visual language is a combination of realistic and abstract images. Her primary interest is not representation; in fact she avoids too much realism and likes to experiment by throwing paint over the canvas, dabbing out with tissue and lifting shapes with blotting paper in order to connect with the process. Rowland likes the fleeting images of reflections and the chance effects of light. She loves the multi-layered, transparent images reflected in glass, water or any shiney object. Painting thus becomes a mass of spur of the moment personal decisions, with colored puddles of paint being pushed around the canvas and multi layered monoprints being used. The image and process become welded into one with considerable risk and excitement.
For Jan Rowland being creative is always a journey of discovery and she gains much pleasure from painting and drawing.
EXHIBITIONS:
2023 Group Exhibition "As we see it 2023" at FHVC
Hera Hub group exhibition “Where the Light enters”,
2022 Group exhibition “As we see it” at FHVC
2021 Group Exhibition “Stone Tower Retrospective”
2019 MAA Labor Day Show
Meeting House Show 2nd place The Road to Lake Toba
2018-21 Resident artist in the Stone Tower, Glen Echo Park
MAA Labor Day Show 2nd in Acrylic; In the heat of the city
Yellow Barn Drawing Show
Waterford Festival 1st in Acrylic; Windows on Westminster
2017 MAA Brookside Garden Show
Friendship Heights Exhibition
2016 WCCC Art Exhibition
2015 Yellow Barn Members Show 1st place Exit Stage Right
2014 Yellow Barn Drawing exhibition
2013 ZigZag Gallery B: Group show
2011 Figuratively Speaking Group show at Yellow Barn
25 Years, Target Gallery, Alexandria
Group show, McLean MPA
Yellow Barn Members show 3rd place Seeking Summer
Stone Tower Gallery, Glen Echo, Artist in Residence in Dec/Jan
2010 Opposites Attract Group show at the Yellow Barn
2009 Tile’t exhibition at the Yellow Barn, Glen Echo