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 “I love being outdoors, so painting outdoors "en plein air' (from the French phrase meaning "in the open air") is a natural for me. Studio work is often done from field studies and memory. In the studio I distill the essentials and re-create the emotion and mood of a place. It is also my hope that my paintings of the landscape will remind people that our wild open spaces are vital to our existence and are worthy of our care and preservation.”
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• Biography
 Waterfall received her BFA, magna cum laude, from Caldwell College in Caldwell NJ, in 1984. Her professional associations include signature membership in the American Society of Landscape Painters, and membership in the American Impressionist Society, The Daily Painters Gallery, the Connecticut Plein Air Painters Society, the Lyme Art Association and elected membership in the Essex Art Association and the Madison Art Society. Her work is represented by galleries in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Most recently, two of her landscapes were selected to hang in the US Embassy in Honduras. In 2008 her landscape Marsh Reflections was chosen to represent Connecticut in the Paint America MiniTop50 collection. In May 2008 her painting Willard Island Walk was awarded Best in Show at the Tracy Art Center pARTners in Art Show. July, 2008 she won the Jane Stannard Granniss Memorial Award in the Clinton Art Society, 59th Annual Summer Show, and had a painting jurid into the New Britain Museum of American Art Show. In 2007, two of her landscapes were chosen to represent the state of Connecticut in the America’s Top 100 Landscape collection. Her painting November Sunset was also chosen as the representative for Connecticut in America’s MiniTop50 Landscapes Collection. In May 2007 she won Best in Show in the Madison Art Society’s annual juried exhibit.
 Good Morning Rockport An instructor at the Tracy Art Center in Old Saybrook, CT since 2005, Blencowe teaches a variety of classes including plein air landscape painting, drawing, and color theory. She is a representative for Chroma Atelier Interactive Acrylics, demonstrating their products, and she lectures throughout the state on internet marketing trends for artists, as well as being a popular painting demonstrator for art societies and associations.
Jan Blencowe’s work has been written about in the March 4th 2007 issue of USA Weekend Magazine, the July/August 2006 issue of Domino Magazine, the August, 31st 2006 issue of the NY Times and the July 30th 2006 issue of the Lexington Herald-Leader.
 Poppies with Landscape Blencowe’s work is in numerous private collections across the US and in Canada, Australia, Germany, Finland and the United Kingdom. Her work has appeared in Nutmeg Magazine and been featured on book covers in Finland and Music CD covers in Germany.
She paints "en plein air” in all seasons and weather. The beauty and diversity of the coastal Connecticut landscape inspire her. Salt marshes, rocky coast, beaches and upland fields and woods are among her favorite subjects to paint. Her large studio landscapes are often based on field studies and her experiences painting outdoors. Jan's works are widely collected nationwide and internationally and are in many private collections.
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