Jan Jennings has been exhibiting and selling her drawings, paintings, and illustrations since 1973 in Topeka, Kansas; Rapid City, South Dakota; Houston, and Dallas, Texas. She studied art as a child at Oklahoma University, Kansas University, and Washburn University. She graduated with a BA in Communication Arts and an AA in Computer Science from Washburn University in Topeka. She took a detour into the digital domain during the mid 80's, into the 90's, and worked as a computer animator in Dallas, Texas; Tallahassee, Florida; and Topeka, Kansas. But she has since returned to her first love, art.
Most of her art work illustrates an idea. The forms and colors become a visual language that symbolize a concept or communicate an emotion. Her paintings and portraits have illustrated the articles by Dr. Darryl Pokea that have been shown on web sites, magazines, and ezines such as: Of Spirit Magazine, Dr. Pokea, and The Edge Midwest Newspaper.
Jan has been listed online in The Internet Art Database, Digital Consciousness, Global Artisitic Village, as well as others.
Jan currently paints with oils and acrylics on canvas. She draws with pastel, colored pencil and charcoal on paper, and occasionally does mixed media by adding acrylic to other mediums on paper. She produces limited edition giclee prints using pigment archival ink.
