Janice Baragwanath attended Rhode Island School of Design for two years on a Ford Foundation Scholarship. She then studied at Cooper Union and earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute. Years later she studied portraiture with Daniel Greene in his North Salem, NY studio, watercolor with John Falato at Paier College of Art in Hamden, CT, and figure drawing with Steven Assael at the New York Academy of Art in Manhattan. While fortunate to have worked with many great instructors, she feels she learned the most by teaching others.
Originally from Larchmont, NY, the artist recently moved to Nyack, NY from Trumbull, CT, where she taught drawing and painting for over twenty-five years in her home studio and at numerous community education programs and artist workshops. Since childhood she has been fascinated with faces and delights in capturing the likeness and personality of each sitter. She loves painting portraits, especially friends and family
Baragwanath’s work was featured twice in Watercolor Magazine, a publication of American Artist (Winter 2000 and Winter 2001). Her paintings have been included in national exhibitions at the Salmagundi Club and the National Arts Club in New York City; the New Britain Museum of Art, Discovery Museum, University of Hartford and Fairfield University in Connecticut; The Attleboro Museum in Massachusetts and the Saco Museum in Maine. She has exhibited with the Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Society in Colorado, Allied Artists of America, Connecticut Women Artists, the New England Watercolor Society and Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts. She has won numerous awards from the Connecticut Watercolor Society, American Artists Professional League, Hudson Valley Art Association, North East Watercolor Society, Connecticut Classic Arts, Society of Creative Arts of Newtown, Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists, and Kent Art Association. Her portraits of Connecticut Superior Court Justices hang in the courthouses of Bridgeport and Stamford. She has had several one-woman shows, including two at Beaux Arts Gallery in Woodbury, CT. For over ten years she exhibited her paintings at Pure Art Gallery in the Cayman Islands and had one of her paintings on the cover of Horizons, the official magazine of Cayman Airways. She recently did the illustrations for The Relaxed Mind, a book on Meditation by Kilung Rinpoche.
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Originally from Larchmont, NY, the artist recently moved to Nyack, NY from Trumbull, CT, where she taught drawing and painting for over twenty-five years in her home studio and at numerous community education programs and artist workshops. Since childhood she has been fascinated with faces and delights in capturing the likeness and personality of each sitter. She loves painting portraits, especially friends and family
Baragwanath’s work was featured twice in Watercolor Magazine, a publication of American Artist (Winter 2000 and Winter 2001). Her paintings have been included in national exhibitions at the Salmagundi Club and the National Arts Club in New York City; the New Britain Museum of Art, Discovery Museum, University of Hartford and Fairfield University in Connecticut; The Attleboro Museum in Massachusetts and the Saco Museum in Maine. She has exhibited with the Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Society in Colorado, Allied Artists of America, Connecticut Women Artists, the New England Watercolor Society and Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts. She has won numerous awards from the Connecticut Watercolor Society, American Artists Professional League, Hudson Valley Art Association, North East Watercolor Society, Connecticut Classic Arts, Society of Creative Arts of Newtown, Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists, and Kent Art Association. Her portraits of Connecticut Superior Court Justices hang in the courthouses of Bridgeport and Stamford. She has had several one-woman shows, including two at Beaux Arts Gallery in Woodbury, CT. For over ten years she exhibited her paintings at Pure Art Gallery in the Cayman Islands and had one of her paintings on the cover of Horizons, the official magazine of Cayman Airways. She recently did the illustrations for The Relaxed Mind, a book on Meditation by Kilung Rinpoche.
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