Artist’s Statement
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Visionary and spiritual artist Jan Wright, formerly of Salt Lake City, Utah, presently lives on the edge of wilderness in northern New Mexico. Her intensely vibrant watercolors express Fifth World energies: that of manifesting Spirit in the physical. Often Spirit Beings, either kachinas or animals, emerge from the landscape or are reflected in the waters of her canyon narrows paintings. Thus we begin seeing them in physical reality in the world around us; this marks our human evolvement to a higher spiritual consciousness.
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Jan’s work reflects the voices of ancient and animal spirits, often ascending from the landscape, a ruin, or an Anasazi vessle, or they are hidden in a canyon’s textures and shadows. Her knowledge and study of petroglyphs often play a role in adding intrigue and more meaning to a scene. Her dramatic ‘Spirit Horse Canyon’ honors the passing of a neighbor’s beautiful horse by his image appearing to gallop into a deep canyon lit by setting sun and moonlight.
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"Often an image comes to me just as I awake in the morning; then I give it time to develop more clearly. I may ask for guidance during my sunrise prayers to allow the animal or spirit to ‘speak through me’ and allow the painting to flow from Creator through my heart and hands onto the paper. That’s when the magic happens!"
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Jan’s vivid, more intense color comes from glazing layers of transparent color on top of each other. "With watercolor, it’s very tricky and only a few colors can be used in this way without turning the painting to mud," Jan says. "Learning to not overwork a painting is a challenge."
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Jan’s paintings are in numerous private collections around the country as well as the Salt Lake County Arts Collection. She has had nine successful one woman exhibits in Utah, New Mexico, and Texas. Her BFA from the University of Texas at Austin in 1970 led her to teaching art, watercolor, beadwork, macramé, and creating personal shields, as well as Tai Chi. Her greeting cards, posters, and ‘Hands of the Ancients’ Medicine Cards (22 exquisite paintings of petroglyphs and pictographs with useful booklet and hand painted bag) have found their way into many shops and homes.
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"A few years ago, with much gratitude in my heart, I vowed in all things to creatively express Spirit (Creator, God, Goddess, Father Sky) and Mother Earth so deeply as to touch the hearts and souls of all who look upon my work."
~ Jan Wright
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See
Jan Wright's Art at these Shops and Galleries
Peace Tree Trading Company, 6009 N. Armenia Avenue,
Tampa, Florida, 813-879-8733
Regalos de Abiquiu, Hwy. 84, Bode's General Store,
Abiquiu, New Mexico, 505-685-4948
Abiquiu Inn, Hwy. 84, Abiquiu, New Mexico, 505-685-4378
The Oldest House Shop, 215 E. de Vargas, Santa Fe, New
Mexico, 505-988-4127
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Jan Wright's
Exhibits
2006
'Portals' Doorways through Ruins,
Canyons, Archways and Dream Catchers
Art Center at Fuller Lodge, Los Alamos,
New Mexico 505-662-9331
August 2 - September 9
2005
Visionary Paintings by Jan
Wright
Paintings priced to sell!
Rio Grande Sun newspaper, 123 N. Railroad Ave., Espanola,
NM
Exhibit through December 2005
Watercolors of the Southwest
by Jan Wright
Abiquiu Inn, Gallery Arriba, Hwy.
84, Abiquiu, NM
April 15 - May 31
International New Age Trade
Show (INATS) West
Denver Merchandise Mart Pavilion Building, Denver, June
25-27
800/346-1212 website:
www.inats.com
Excellent overall mix
of merchandise for retail stores carrying New Age giftware,
books, music, audio, video, and related products. Informative
seminars. Author breakfasts and lunches. 1,500 attendees,
300 exhibitors.
The Healing Field
3805 Rio Grande, Albuquerque,
New Mexico 505-897-2252
May 20 - June 22
Totem animals (medicine shields,
beaded fans, medicine bags)
Watercolors by Jan Wright
The Oldest House Shop
215 East De Vargas St. (near Mission San Miguel)
Santa Fe, New Mexico
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Jan Wright's
Resume
Totem Animal Exhibit, The Healing Field, Albuquerque,
May & June '05
Whole Expo Santa Fe, INATS Denver, World Wellness Albuquerque,
summer '05
Watercolors of the Southwest, Abiquiu Inn, New Mexico, April &
May '05
People's Choice Award in a show at the Cortez Cultural Center,
Painting Category
One of 10 artists Los Alamos Art Center's Featured Five X
2 Exhibit, January '02
Manifesting Spirit in the Physical ~ Moving into Fifth Universe
Energies’ exhibit,
Oasis Cafe, Salt Lake City, UT, Nov '04
November 15 – December 28, UnWynding the Spirit, Albuquerque
Watercolors by Jan Wright, currently at Oldest House Shop, Santa
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‘Canyon Narrows,’ Abiquiu Inn Caf_, Abiquiu, NM, May
‘03
‘Visionary & Spiritual Art,’ Taos Spirit Metaphysical
Shop, ‘03
Taos Metaphysical Fair October ‘01,’02, Art Diva’s
of Taos
Taos Spirit Metaphysical Shop, We’ Moon ’03 calendar
11:11 Star Knowledge Conference, Colo Springs, Nov ‘02
‘Sky in Motion, Etched in Stone’ exhibit of paintings
on archaeoastronomy of the Four Corners
(at Alpine Art in Salt Lake City, Price Historic Museum, Edge
of the Cedars Museum in Blanding, Utah, Fremont Indian State Park,
‘99 - ’00)
‘A Return to Texas’ watercolor show at Westwood Country
Club & North Gallery, Austin, TX
‘Windows,’ Edge of Cedars Museum, Blanding, UT ‘95
‘Watercolors of the Four Corners’ Blanding, UT fall
‘93
Kimball Art Center Open Invitational, Park City, UT ‘92
Salt Lake County Fine Arts Collection
Women’s Invitational, Eccles Art Center, Ogden, UT ‘91
Evelyn Fournier Gallery of Park City, Utah Arts Council
First Security Bank of St. George commission
Paintings sold at Sundance, UT ‘88
‘Plateaus ~ Pitches ~ Pueblos’ Salt Lake City, April
‘88
Arts Festivals of Park City, Salt Lake City, Snowbird, UT, ‘74
Art teacher, Texas City and Galveston, TX
BFA Art Education, University of Texas at Austin 1970
Utah Watercolor Society, New Mexico Watercolor Society
American Women Artists
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Recommended Links from Jan
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Site Copyright © 2003-2004, All Rights Reserved
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Butterfly
Visions by Jan Wright
POB 32, Coyote, NM 87012
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Phone:
505-638-0280
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This page was last updated on:
Sunday,
October 23, 2005
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