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Jan Poynter Iris Griffith Centre Artist's Residency
During the month of August 2007, Jan Poynter served as artist-in-residence at the Iris Griffith Interpretive Centre. During her month in residence, Jan produced a series of botanical and wildlife illustrations and paintings representing the typical birds, bugs and amphibians of the Ruby Lake Lagoon Nature Reserve in their natural wetland habitat. Jan's beautiful illustrations and paintings will ultimately form part of permanent visual displays at the Iris Griffith Centre. These will include outdoor wetland signage, indoor fern painting series, and a natural history bird guidebook, featuring illustrated line drawings for children to use for colouring and learning wildlife identification.
Throughout August the public was invited to visit Jan at the Centre to view and discuss the drawing, painting and preparation of the illustrations while she was working on site. In addition, Jan offered special event days including demonstrations for active learning with participants sketching or painting while participating in guided nature walks.
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You can see more of Jan's art work by visiting her website at www.flickr.com/photos/janpoynter_artist.
Jan's project was part of the six-month long Natural World: An Artists' Celebration, a partnership initiative of the Lagoon Society and the Sunshine Coast Arts Council, generously funded by 2010 ArtsNow, Spirit of BC Arts Fund, McLean Foundation, Sunshine Coast Community Foundation, and the Aboriginal Arts Development Award.
The Lagoon Society is very grateful to the generous contributions of the many private individuals, businesses, foundations, community groups, corporations, and government agencies that make up our many sponsors.
We gratefully acknowledge the financial assistance of the Province of British Columbia. | |||||||||||||||||
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Jan majored in Painting and Printmaking at the Vancouver School of Art and her teaching training continued in Art Education at the University of British Columbia. Jan’s illustration and rendering abilities have contributed to her fine art career with expertise in drawing, watercolor, pastel and oil painting. Showing in private galleries, solo and group exhibitions since the late 1970’s, her work is based realistic and colorful subjects including landscapes, interiors, and floral studies. In 2002, Jan’s work shifted to creating a collection of strong and vibrant oils, acrylics and smaller watercolor studies done on location to reflect the beauty and unique character of the local coastal surroundings. Keeping pace with the current technology in computer graphics and web media, Jan also does commercial illustration work for international corporate commissions and has contributed to many non-profit organizations and events with logos, paintings, illustrations and promotional materials. Jan has over 20 years of teaching experience all levels of fine arts, including teaching fine arts classes for Capilano College and participating in Artist in the School Programs.
