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Artist
Statement
Jane Lovett Holt sees beauty in life and shares her vision
in bold paintings that at once reflect and reveal her subjects.
Her work has earned display in a variety of venues, from
the halls of justice to the walls of private collectors
internationally.
Fellow
artists have described Jane as a painter with a strong sense
of design and composition, employing fresh linear brushwork.
She calls her intuitive style soft realism. Jane "shoots
from the hip" with zealous, broad strokes and vitality,
slowing only to capture an occasional gleam or small detail.
Preferring to work from life with a model or en plein air,
she captures the interplay of light and color in oil.
Biography
Jane’s artistic bent was evident early in life, when she
won her first art contest at age eleven. She went on to
receive her B.A. in art from the University of Arkansas
at Fayetteville, studying under Lothar Kruger and Howard
Whitlatch. She then taught art in both public and private
schools. After raising her sons and many years of volunteer
work, Jane returned to her love of art with a renewed passion,
studying portrait and figurative drawing and painting at
the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and the Arkansas
Arts Center, and attending numerous workshops. She has studied
with Susan Chambers, Kevin Kresse, Marjorie Williams-Smith,
Arden Boyce, Barry Thomas, Bruce Peil, Michael Shane Neal
and Jeff Legg.
Awards
and Honors
Jane believes in giving back to the community that supports
her work as an artist. She designed and donated the logo
for the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra Society Guild. She has
donated limited rights to her popular painting of the William
J. Clinton Presidential Center to the THEA Foundation for
use in its fund-raising efforts. Thousands of the painting’s
postcards and prints have been sold, raising much needed
funds for scholarships for young Arkansas artists. She has
served as a judge for the Young Arkansas Artists competition,
the THEA Visual Art Scholarship program, the Racking Horse
World Celebration Children’s art shows and the Birch Tree
Art Show. Jane has been asked to teach painting at Life
Quest in the spring of 2008 and to lecture at the Women’s
Leadership Forum in March 2008. She has participated in
the Garvan Woodland Gardens Invitational Plein Air Paint-Out
and Show for several years. In May of 2006 her painting
Petit Jean II was featured on the invitations to the Inaugural
Scholarship Art Exhibition and Sale at the Winthrop Rockefeller
Center where her painting, Morning, Petit Jean, received
the Jurors’ Commendation Award. Her recent work includes
paintings from Arkansas, Alaska, Arizona and France where
she participated in the En Plein Air Masters’ Program.
In 2006
Jane was juried into the Nomadas del Arte 2008 in Sante
Fe at the Sage Creek Gallery and in 2009 in the Southwest
Gallery in Dallas. She was also honored by being asked to
hang a plein air painting in the Art Across Arkansas permanent
collection sponsored by the Clinton Foundation and the THEA
Foundation. Jane was juried into the Arkansas Governor’s
Mansion Commission’s Calendar for 2008 featuring her painting
Arkansas Autumn; subsequently, she toured parts of the state
with Arkansas’ First Lady Ginger Beebe on a book-signing
tour.
In 2008
Jane became a new member of Plein Air Artists Colorado.
The February 2008 issue of American Art Collector magazine
quoted Jane about plein air painting in the article on Nomadas
del Arte which also features one of her paintings. Lastly,
her painting Ozark Mountain Morning is featured on the March
2008 cover of The Ozarks Magazine.
A charter
member of the Portrait Society of America and an associate
member of The Oil Painters of America, Jane’s paintings
are in private collections throughout the United States,
as well as Canada, Mexico and the United Kingdom. Upon its
completion, her painting of her husband – retired Arkansas
Supreme Court Chief Justice Jack Wilson Holt, Jr. – will
hang in the West Wing of the Justice Building in Little
Rock.
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