Jan Grover

Jan has always enjoyed the creative process be it working with clay or paint.

She has attended numerous night classes and workshops over the years while juggling family and career, producing pottery when at home with young children, and finally completing a part time course in Painting and Drawing at Auckland School of Arts in 1991.

Influenced by Lance O’Gorman’s impressionistic style while living in Mairangi Bay, she exhibited frequently in local art exhibitions on the North Shore before moving to Mangawhai in 2006. Here she helped establish Mangawhai Artists in its current format and served on committee for many years.

In recent years she has also studied watercolour with Brian Millard and taken part in several overseas watercolour painting tours tutored by Australian painters John Lovett and Chan Dissanayake. She very much enjoys the challenge and spontaneity of this medium.

Her passion is to capture the effects of light be it landscape or seascape, using a limited palate to create atmosphere and mood. She uses figures where appropriate to draw the viewer into the scene, allowing the viewer to relate more personally to the environment.