broadbrookart
Location
Broad Brook, CT, United States
Quick Blurb
I hope you like birds and moons...and color..and black and white fine art. Thank you for visiting! Contact me with questions!
Interests
scratchboard, giclee prints, black and white, prismacolor, pencil, birds, oil spill, pastel, fine art, prints, landscape, night
Skills and Techniques
I always jump off with drawing but the drawing always takes me through paint and color pencil and pastel. With scratchboard intricate lines are used to pull a viewer in and I love to leave them just black and white. I use all kinds of tools to make lines on the india ink that is layered over the finest white clay, kaolin. I do not retouch my drawn lines and I do not re-ink. I just follow the line to see where it goes.
Find me online @:
http://www.broadbrookart.com http://wishhorsestudio.com http://broadbrookart.blogspot.co…Get to Know
My name is Janice Warren but my friends call me Jan. I live on an inactive farm with my (marriage equality yes!) wife Donna our seal point siamese cat Cassandra and our brown dog (mutt) Rosie. We hare the acreage with my parents who live in the original farmhouse and my sister and her husband in their own house. Yep, family compound. I have been making pictures from the moment I could wrap my hand around a tool...crayon, pencil, charcoal and on and on. I have been selling art in different forums for 35 years but I still consider myself to be an emerging artist. My high school art experience in South Windsor, CT, was extensive and prepared me for being a professional artist surprisingly well. Of course, that kind of art education is not available in public schools anymore~ not even in the school system I graduated from.
I continued my art education in college, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1983. After a year back in CT I jammed everything in my car (the paintings were tied to the inside roof) and headed west, settling in Arizona and loving every change in color and light and air all around me. Although I eventually returned to the east coast I carry those colors and desert themes with me...they seem impressed into my very bone. As a young artist I did many different things for a living. I started out at a copy shop and eventually moved my way past the designing part of print and into the sales end in the print industry, but it is a whole new world and the industry is nothing like it was. I sold, I lobbied, I wrote and thought I had found my calling when I made my way into teaching art in both public and private schools. At one point I saw 650 different students each week. It exhausted my own work right out of me and for a long time I didn't make anything at all. My smaller classes of high school students inspired me to create art of my own on a regular basis and there I found the courage to leave teaching and make art full time. In the 5 years since I have consistently shown in galleries and specialty shows around the country.
I lived and worked in ArtSpace Hartford for many years with the operating name of Wishhorse Studio. During that time I was able to do a number of art installations about birds that dwell in cities. I have continued with the subject matter of birds including works about the Gulf of Mexico Deep Water Horizon oil spill and its impact on sea birds. In 2011 I find myself back doing the landscapes I found rewarding even as a teen. For me nothing is more interesting and bright and dark than our natural world. I love taking the swirl of a bird wing I see against the sky and filling in the air all around it with romanticized lines. I hope to inspire viewers to look closely and feel the fluttering of wings or wind on the summer grass at night. What do you see?
I continued my art education in college, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1983. After a year back in CT I jammed everything in my car (the paintings were tied to the inside roof) and headed west, settling in Arizona and loving every change in color and light and air all around me. Although I eventually returned to the east coast I carry those colors and desert themes with me...they seem impressed into my very bone. As a young artist I did many different things for a living. I started out at a copy shop and eventually moved my way past the designing part of print and into the sales end in the print industry, but it is a whole new world and the industry is nothing like it was. I sold, I lobbied, I wrote and thought I had found my calling when I made my way into teaching art in both public and private schools. At one point I saw 650 different students each week. It exhausted my own work right out of me and for a long time I didn't make anything at all. My smaller classes of high school students inspired me to create art of my own on a regular basis and there I found the courage to leave teaching and make art full time. In the 5 years since I have consistently shown in galleries and specialty shows around the country.
I lived and worked in ArtSpace Hartford for many years with the operating name of Wishhorse Studio. During that time I was able to do a number of art installations about birds that dwell in cities. I have continued with the subject matter of birds including works about the Gulf of Mexico Deep Water Horizon oil spill and its impact on sea birds. In 2011 I find myself back doing the landscapes I found rewarding even as a teen. For me nothing is more interesting and bright and dark than our natural world. I love taking the swirl of a bird wing I see against the sky and filling in the air all around it with romanticized lines. I hope to inspire viewers to look closely and feel the fluttering of wings or wind on the summer grass at night. What do you see?
