Janette Jones
Studio California
Janette Jones
The comments heard most often about her paintings are “they make me feel joyful”, “lift my spirits”, and “they are filled with a sense of light and lightness”. As an artist who is constantly looking for the beauty of light in every subject, this is music to her ears. As a person who is wildly optimistic about life and positive about the future, she is thrilled her paintings reflect this “joie de vivre” attitude and bring joy to her collector. Janette uses a strong sense of design, personal color mixes and an intimate point of view to create her distinct style.
Born in California and majored in art while attending California State University, Stanislaus, and studied watercolor for five years with Virginia Jentoft in Davis, Ca. Her watercolor images were successfully marketed and licensed with Daisy Kingdom, Naturally, Springs Mills and Prints Plus (among others) between 1988-2002. She has been painting outdoors in oils after a workshop in 2003 with Elizabeth Tolley, hooked by the challenge of capturing the truth on canvas.
Recent Selected Exhibitions & Events
2012 Napa Valley Art Festival, Invited Artist
2011 Juried into SLO Plein Air & Napa Valley Art Festival
2011 Laguna Plein Air Painters Association "Less Is More" Exhibit May 21st-June
2011 Plein Air Painting in the Garden Workshop at Milfiori, Murphys Calif -April 22,23,24
2011 6x6 Exhibit Randy Higbee Gallery April
2011 Plein Air Demo & Workshop Tulare Palette Club, Tulare Museum- Feb 17&18
2011 Group Exhibit Knowlton Gallery..."Wildflowers West" March & April
2010 Group Exhibit at Knowlton Gallery "Sketchbook-The Art of Drawing" Dec-Jan
2010 “A Year at Milfiori” Created an ongoing painting group with Exhibit to benefit community restoration project
2010 “Engineered Landscapes” Group Exhibit Oct-Nov Knowlton Gallery
2010 California Art Club Blinn House Group Exhibit “California Heritage” Aug-Dec
2010 Laguna PAPA 6th Annual "Best of Plein Air" Juried Members Exhibit July
2010 Knowlton Gallery Group Exhibit "Down to the Sea" June, July
2010 Napa Valley Art Exhibit- Juried Group Exhibit & Sale, Yountville, Ca August
2010 Guest Artist "State Parks Exhibit" Roger's Gardens Fine Art, Corona del Mar May/June
2010 LPAPA "Less Is More" Juried Group Exhibit, Laguna Beach
2010 Knowlton Gallery Interior/Still Life Group Exhibit March, April Lodi,Ca
2010 Invited Artist Nomadas del Artes, Collectors Gallery, Dallas, TX
2010 Teaching "Plein Air in the Garden" Workshop, Milfiori
2009 Roger’s Gardens, Hidden Wineries of California, Corona del Mar, CA
2009 Knowlton Gallery, Solo Exhibition “Joie de Vivre” Recent Paintings by Janette Jones
2009 Napa Valley Land Trust Group Landscape Exhibit
(won California Art Club Award)
2009 Knowlton Gallery, Historic Barns of San Joaquin County Group Show, Lodi
2009 Roger’s Gardens, Spring Solstice Group Exhibition, Corona del Mar, CA
2008 American Impressionist Society Group Exhibition, Coda Gallery, CA
Corporate Collections
F&M Land Bank (Corporate Headquarters), Lodi Memorial Hospital, Corning, City of Oxnard
Affiliations
Oil Painters of America, California Art Club, Laguna Plein Air Painters, American Impressionist Society
