Jan Wall

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Ajouté le 8 nov. 2019

Climate Change exhibit, Berkeley Central Arts Passage

2055 Center Street

Berkeley, California

Opening reception Saturday, October 24, 4:00-6:00

Ajouté le 25 sept. 2019

Old Growth Douglas Fir, Oregon

Ajouté le 25 sept. 2019

Kayla and the Squirrel

Ajouté le 17 sept. 2019

Photo by Kayla Arnett

Ajouté le 30 juin 2019

The Peaceable Kingdom

Ajouté le 9 juin 2019

Stephen Hawking as a Young Man

Ajouté le 25 mars 2019

Ajouté le 23 mars 2019

Cedar Mesa

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Ajouté le 20 mai 2014

This painting shows my father in his early twenties. He has just bought the gas station and grocery store in New Deal, Texas, and he's very proud to have escaped his father's farm. The painting shows the bright morning in that harsh country.

I was born there a few years later. I attended Texas Tech, did postgraduate work at UC Berkeley, and taught English on fellowships at Tech and at UCB. I spent a summer at Stanford on a Danforth Fellowship. I was a Josephine Miles Fellow at Berkeley and assistant professor of English as part of that fellowship.

I have taught at Texas Tech, Amarillo College, Laney College in downtown Oakland, California,at UC Berkeley, and at the College of the Virgin Islands. At Laney, where I taught for 40 years, I studied art with Bill Snider, who used the techniques of the Dutch masters to paint Disney characters.

Retirement has given me time to paint in earnest, and to explore different types of paintings, landscapes, news events, surrealism. In September, 2013, Artmajeur honored me with a Silver Award.

Spring Forward at Expressions

Ajouté le 16 mai 2014

Expressions Gallery at 2035 Ashby in Berkeley, California, is showing Spring Forward until July 11, 2014.

The exhibit contains a variety of paintings, photographs, compositions, jewelry, textiles, and digital prints.

Poetry readings on May 16, June 20, and July 18. Comedy nights May 19, June 13, and July 11. I'll be at the gallery on May 30, glad to show you around. Jan