Jane Carr
Born in 1939, Jane Carr is a painter of landscapes in egg tempera on panel. She paints the area where she lives on the Northwestern edge of the Catskill Mountains in Treadwell, NY. Originally trained as a sculptor at the Philadelphia College of Art (BFA) and the Yale University School of Art and Architecture, her paintings are an outgrowth of her polychromed relief sculptures in wood. Carr uses the jewel-like quality of egg tempera color to catch the effects of light and atmosphere in the long hollows of the western Catskills, and is particularly interested in how landscapes are altered by farming, animals, buildings and weather.
Her latest series of large landscapes were painted during 2004 and 2005, especially for a solo show at the Cooperstown Art Association in Upstate NY. They are all taken from Catskill landscapes within several miles of her home and studio in Treadwell, NY, and a few are second and third versions of previous sites. In early 2005, these paintings were at the Yager Museum at Hartwick College for four months.
In 2002, she departed from the Catskill settings on which she had concentrated to prepare for a solo show, From the Catskills to the High Arctic, at the Kubiak Gallery in Oneonta, NY. The introduction of the Arctic landscapes in egg tempera contrasted these two very different typographies while exploring the underlying similarities of form and light. In 2003 she worked on a large series of paintings of Rocks and Standing Stones, depicting formations throughout the United States, England, Canada and Mexico.
Carr works from sketches, photographic reference and quick watercolor studies. She teaches egg tempera classes in New York State and at the Great Northern Arts Festival in Inuvik, NT, Canada, where she has been a participating artist at the festival since 1993. Jane Carr is a member of the Society of Tempera Painters, The Hamilton Street Club in Baltimore, The GNAF Society, The Cooperstown Art Association and The Upper Catskill Community for the Arts. She is a Member Artist of the Pioneer Gallery in Cooperstown, NY
Downsville
Hayrows
Towards Buckland
Pine Lake