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Jan Martin McGuire
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Jan travels the world over -sketching, painting in the field, and photographing
-the natural world she has such a love affair with. As excited by a tiny chestnut
colored wren hopping among leaf litter on the forest floor to a rampaging
black rhino in the African savannah, Jan strives to accurately portray nature
while still eliciting a positive emotional response from the viewer.
Jan works in acrylic paint on smooth masonite panel to help create the
fine details, textures and lighting that are hallmarks of her work.
Manipulating the paint on the board with brushes, sponges, saranwrap and her
fingers, Jan creates lifelike renditions of fur, feathers, mosses, rocks etc.
The surrounding habitat is always scientifically correct, yet an artistic
backdrop to the main subject of the wildlife species she is depicting.
Jan's work has hung in the Smithsonian Museum, Gilcrease Museum, Natural
History Museum of London and she has a one person exhibit scheduled for
spring 2002 at the Dallas Museum of Natural History. She is in the collection
of FORBES magazine and the WORLD CENTER FOR BIRDS OF PREY among others.
Her work has appeared in numerous magazines and books including NATIONAL
WILDLIFE FEDERATION, U.S. Art, WILDLIFE ART NEWS and AMERICAN ARTIST
MAGAZINE. Books include: BEST OF WILDLIFE ART I and II, NORTH AMERICAN
ENDANGERED AND THREATENED SPECIES, and she has two books coming out that
she has written including a children's book.
*Jan has recently (Dec. 2003)been named the Featured Special Guest
artist for the ART OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM in Vermont at the Bennington
Natural and Cultural Arts Center. This is quite a nice honor.
Jan currently lives in the Osage Hills of Oklahoma with her fiancé and
business manager -James Gary Hines II, and her teenage daughter Teal,
along with a menagerie of animals including parrots, a raccoon, wolf,
boa constrictor, African tortoise, and assorted dogs and cats. Jan is a member
of the prestigious SOCIETY OF ANIMAL ARTISTS.
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