Jan Makower

 

 

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Cromarty Lighthouse

 

This picture, 'A Sea of Yellow', has been accepted as an exhibit in the annual Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour

Awards
City and Guilds Gold Medal Creative Studies / Watercolour  2004
Best in Show 2006 - St Albans Art Society
Best in Show 2007 - St Albans Art Society
June 2009 - The Artscape Award
December 2009 - Runner Up - Best in Show - Harpenden Arts Society
June 2010 - Highly Commended - St Albans Art Society
November 2010 - Best in Show (Public Vote) - Harpenden Art Scoiety

Exhibitions
One Woman Show - 2001 - Old Town Hall Hemel Hempstead
‘Reflections’ exhibition - 2003 - Old Town Hall Hemel Hempstead
An Exhibition of paintings - 2006 - Old Town Hall Hemel Hempstead
Royal Institute of Watercolour Painters - April 2009 - Mall Galleries
Open Studios - Sept 2009 - Hemel Hempstead
Baldock Exhibition - October 2009
Art Shed in Hitchin - December 2009
Boxmoor Framing Gallery - January 2010
St Albans Mayor's Exhibition - February 2010
Kingsbury Boon HUAF - June 2010
Women in the Frame - Whitstable - June 2010

Jan regularly shows her work in:
St Albans
Berkhamsted
Harpenden
Little Gaddesden
Boxmoor Framing Gallery
Upstairs Gallery, Berkhamsted High Street
The Audio Visual Gallery at Suburban TV,
5 Village Centre, Leverstock Green, Hemel Hempstead, HP3 8QG

Classes
At Hemel Hempstead Cricket Club
Tuesdays - Watercolour and drawing for all abilities
Friday mornings - Watercolour and drawing for all abilities
Friday Afternoons - Pastels

Westbrook Hay School
Wednesday Evening - Watercolour and drawing - all abilities

Potten End Church Room
Thursday Afternoons - Watercolour and Drawin

One day workshops
Foreground textures/meadows
Trees in Watercolour
Abstract design and painting
Woodland scenes in watercolour
Painting on Gesso with Watercolour and inks
Creating textured backgrounds
Skies in Watercolour
Bluebell Woods

 

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