Artwork by Jan Rowland

Jan Rowland Biography

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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.

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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.

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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