Jan Lhormer
Jan Lhormer has exhibited widely throughout New England and beyond for over thirty years. She lives and works on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Exhibition highlights include The Painting Center, NYC; Speedwell Projects Gallery, Portland, ME; The Cape Cod Museum of Art, Barnstable, MA; Lyman Eyer Gallery, Provincetown, MA: and Creiger-Dane Gallery, Boston, MA. She has a forthcoming solo exhibition at The Duxbury Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, MA. Lhormer!s paintings are also showcased in Boston area offices through the DeCordova Museum Corporate Loan Program. She has participated in residencies at The Vermont Studio Center as well as the Virginia Center for the Arts.
Lhormer received her MFA in Painting in 1990 from The Boston University School of Visual Arts, where she also received her BFA. She also holds a BA in Art History from Colorado College. She currently teaches painting and drawing at Bridgewater State University, and she has published articles in Provincetown Arts Magazine, Art New England, and Cape Arts Review.
“I think of painting as a door to the spirit world, using nature as my pathway. The creative act serves as a ritual for me, requiring focus, reiteration, and devotion. My current bodies of work, Skyscapes and In the Garden, are reflective of this ritualistic process. My studio practice is informed by the landscape of my surroundings on Cape Cod, and by my sensations of environmental shifts. I channel changes on the ground and fluctuations of light through sensual uses of color in various painting media, and by employing treatments suggestive of subjects that interrelate and overlap, and that are both tangible and ethereal......”
