Jan Brigg's Art & Bio
Jan Briggs
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."- Thomas Merton
Enthusiasm & passion for creating art from Jan Briggs’ inner self abounds in all her work. Oil and Watercolor allow her to flip her brain work in opposite directions while Pen & Ink and other drawing media pull her back to basics. Beauty surrounds us everywhere. Transporting her viewers through story, memory and color Jan strives to present Beauty in a Romanticized Realism to lift our spirits.
As in the natural world, human life is always changing as is Jan’s style and subject matter. She enjoys stretching to highlight her subjects in bright colors or in a diverse mode. Animals, especially imperiled, disappearing rural barns or churches and landscapes are her main focus yet anything else may catch her eye.
Unique to Jan is Pieced Watercolor, a process she developed herself, to portray the subject in a bas relief on paper. It is totally created from a myriad of watercolor papers sculpted over a base painting into 3-D.
As a seven year old moving to Arkansas from Oklahoma, Jan Briggs eventually married a Hot Springs native. They put down their roots for over 40 years here.
Drawing as long as she can remember, she enjoyed many types of arts and crafts growing up. As an art major at Henderson State University she spent one summer as the youngest Art Director, age nineteen, for Camp Aldersgate in Little Rock. She worked in advertising while in high school, was an artist for Arkansas Democrat, and free-lanced window display and advertising art later. While raising her children she worked in Mountain Pine Schools, starting their Summer Activities Program and Close-Up programs. She was a leader in Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts (a lifetime member) using her art in summer camps and in variouspositions held. She has taught classes privately and in Garland County Childrens’ Library, demonstratedarts in many venues, and just shared a lot.
Finishing her BFA degree in Studio Arts in her fifties, she has attended many workshops and NPCC to further hone her painting skills. Jan has exhibited in many juried shows and won many awards. Her works hang privately and commercially across the USA.
She is a member of Artists and Biologists United for Nature using art to help arouse awareness and funds for imperiled fauna worldwide. facebook:ABUN She is a Special Exhibits Chair and a past president of Traditional Art Guild of Hot Springs AR; a member of Three Rivers Art Guild; Hot Springs Area Cultural Alliance(HotSpringsArts.org); Plein Air Painters of Central Arkansas; a Friends Of the Library of Garland County Board member and past president; a Lifetime member of Girl Scouts.
Artwork by Jan may be seen in Hot Springs AR in Artists Workshop Gallery (artistsworkshopgallery.com) and The Whittington Gallery & Studios; on Arkansas Artists Registry (arkansasartistregistry/Arkansas.gov); in Bainum Library, Glenwood AR.
When buying or viewing a piece of art you are really encountering the artist’s life and soul.
youtu.be/x7d3TVEDBis See artist interview
Enthusiasm & passion for creating art from Jan Briggs’ inner self abounds in all her work. Oil and Watercolor allow her to flip her brain work in opposite directions while Pen & Ink and other drawing media pull her back to basics. Beauty surrounds us everywhere. Transporting her viewers through story, memory and color Jan strives to present Beauty in a Romanticized Realism to lift our spirits.
As in the natural world, human life is always changing as is Jan’s style and subject matter. She enjoys stretching to highlight her subjects in bright colors or in a diverse mode. Animals, especially imperiled, disappearing rural barns or churches and landscapes are her main focus yet anything else may catch her eye.
Unique to Jan is Pieced Watercolor, a process she developed herself, to portray the subject in a bas relief on paper. It is totally created from a myriad of watercolor papers sculpted over a base painting into 3-D.
As a seven year old moving to Arkansas from Oklahoma, Jan Briggs eventually married a Hot Springs native. They put down their roots for over 40 years here.
Drawing as long as she can remember, she enjoyed many types of arts and crafts growing up. As an art major at Henderson State University she spent one summer as the youngest Art Director, age nineteen, for Camp Aldersgate in Little Rock. She worked in advertising while in high school, was an artist for Arkansas Democrat, and free-lanced window display and advertising art later. While raising her children she worked in Mountain Pine Schools, starting their Summer Activities Program and Close-Up programs. She was a leader in Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts (a lifetime member) using her art in summer camps and in variouspositions held. She has taught classes privately and in Garland County Childrens’ Library, demonstratedarts in many venues, and just shared a lot.
Finishing her BFA degree in Studio Arts in her fifties, she has attended many workshops and NPCC to further hone her painting skills. Jan has exhibited in many juried shows and won many awards. Her works hang privately and commercially across the USA.
She is a member of Artists and Biologists United for Nature using art to help arouse awareness and funds for imperiled fauna worldwide. facebook:ABUN She is a Special Exhibits Chair and a past president of Traditional Art Guild of Hot Springs AR; a member of Three Rivers Art Guild; Hot Springs Area Cultural Alliance(HotSpringsArts.org); Plein Air Painters of Central Arkansas; a Friends Of the Library of Garland County Board member and past president; a Lifetime member of Girl Scouts.
Artwork by Jan may be seen in Hot Springs AR in Artists Workshop Gallery (artistsworkshopgallery.com) and The Whittington Gallery & Studios; on Arkansas Artists Registry (arkansasartistregistry/Arkansas.gov); in Bainum Library, Glenwood AR.
When buying or viewing a piece of art you are really encountering the artist’s life and soul.
youtu.be/x7d3TVEDBis See artist interview