ART OF JANE FALKENBERG
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About Me.


I loved to draw as a child. Horses, mostly. I decided to be an artist early in life and never gave anything else serious consideration.

​After earning a degree in Commercial Art I found work in the printed apparel industry. I made custom designs using fonts on transfer sheets, ink drawings with radiograph pens, stencils cut with a swivel knife from ruby lith on a back lit drafting table using a straight edge and triangle. So many tools and materials to use. It was manual creative work done with skilled precision that I liked, in the company of other fun art elves.


I used Corel Draw, Illustrator and Photoshop when we transitioned to digital production, skills I am grateful to have learned. I painted during my years in college, but began in earnest at this time using “How to Paint like the Old Masters” by Joseph Sheppard as a guide. I entered calls for entry engaging in many exhibitions, and selling.


I chose to leave graphic art and become a sub contractor, using my painting skills in surface repair. I valued the autonomy, liked planning the best approach and challenges to my skill level.
I was excited by the ideas in Patricia Seligman’s book “Painting Murals” and began making murals and ornamental painting during this time.


I am now employed as a merchandiser, but my creative life is active and looking for calls for entry, gallery representation and commissions.
ARTISTS STATEMENT

My calling as an artist is to give form to ideas. I like to use descriptions others provide and make the subject manifest. I delight in small details. Choosing clothing and hair styles from the work of great painters of the past for a period piece. Discern the expressions of a crowd. Arranging a tangle of bones and jewels. Each piece is an exploration and study of a new subject. 


My preferred medium is oil, using the painting techniques of the old masters. I like that I don’t have to keep rewetting my paint during a long session. Using the transparent and opaque qualities of the different colors, I can build contrast and deeper color with glazing.  


I also love trompe l’oeil, grisaille, faux finish and exotic murals. For large scale work I use artists acrylic paint in containers of ready to use consistency.


I want to draw the viewer in with beauty and then at times, leave them a little unsettled by the subject. It’s an exciting time to create art with imaginative realism being more widely represented. I’m looking forward to where my artistic journey goes next.
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ARTIST CV 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS

February 2019: When Pigs Fly, Invitational Chinese New Year Show Valkarie Gallery  Lakewood,CO
September 2018: Farmers Market Booth Featured Artist (9/23) Gallery 1505 
May 2018: Juried Spring Show Gallery 1505 Denver CO
February 2018: Every Dog has His Day, Invitational Chinese New Year Show Valkarie Gallery Lakewood CO
September 2014: The Cloud Show Aurora Cultural Arts District Aurora CO
September 2003: 7th Annual Colorado Illustrators Show Lakewood Cultural Center Lakewood CO
April 2003: Up Against the Wall Veda Ellison Gallery Denver
September 2002: 6th Annual Colorado Illustrators Show Space Gallery Denver CO
October 2001: 101 Vampires Goog Denver CO
August 2001: 2-D Juried Exhibition Old Firehouse Art Center Longmont CO
April 2001: 5th Annual Colorado Illustrators Show Buell Theater Denver CO 
January 2001: Colorado Art Open Foothills Art Center Golden CO
May 2000: Celebrate Art Reach at 2nd Annual Celebrate Colorado Artists Denver CO
April 2000: World Horror Con 2000 Art Show Adams Mark Hotel Denver CO
​November 1999: The All Hallows Eve Show Dark Millennia Studios Englewood CO
September 1999: Death Equinox Ramada Inn Denver CO
November 1998: CO=Excellence The Gallery Pueblo CO
October 1998: CO=Excellence The Depot Steamboat Springs CO
August 1998: CO=Excellence Emmanuel Gallery Denver CO
September 1997: Colorado 
Contempto Republic Plaza Denver CO
August 1997: 14th Annual All Colorado Art Show Curtis Arts and Humanities Center Centennial CO
February 1997: My God! Mackey Gallery Denver CO
February 1997: Atropia The Eulipion Center Denver CO
February 1997: Dark Vision 2 Dark's Art Parlor N. Hollywood CA
May 1996: 13th Annual All Colorado Art Show Curtis Arts and Humanities Center Centennial CO

Works held in Private Collections in Colorado, Louisiana and Texas

AW​ARDS / RECOGNITION
Best in Show 6th Annual Colorado Illustrators Show - Jury's Choice
Best in Show World Horror Con 2000 Art Show - Peoples Choice

Published on the cover of Morbid Curiosity Cure the Blues
Scribbler, A division of Simon & Schuster October 2009
RELATED EXPERIENCE
Illusory Creations Mural and Ornamental Painting 2006-2009
​Painted large scale decorative designs in private homes and in the Parade of Homes

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