Jan Matson

Jan Matson is an Australian artist who specializes in landscapes and streetscapes.
Originally from Adelaide, Jan began painting seriously while living in Alice Springs in the early 1980s where she won the Centralian Advocate Art Award. During that time, various private and public collectors from Australia, United States, United Kingdom and the Ministry of Culture in Beijing bought her paintings.
A Canberra resident since 1986, Jan has been painting in oils for more than 30 years. She is a member of the Canberra Artists' Society and has studied portraiture and figure painting at the Canberra Institute of the Arts (ANU).
Jan's first solo exhibition was in 2000 celebrating her lifelong love of colour, hence the exhibition's name A Love Affair with Colour. In January of the same year Jan combined her artistic talents with a fellow artist in an exhibition entitled From the Bush to the Sea. It focused on an Australiana theme with paintings of the Australian bush as well as local landscapes and coastal views.
Her first trip to England, France and Italy in 2001 was followed 7 months later with A Room with Many Views, an exhibition of oil paintings featuring landscapes, street scenes and architecture.
On a second trip to Italy in 2002 Jan rented a villa in Tuscany and drove throughout Tuscany and Umbria photographing and painting villas on hilltops, vineyards and olive groves as well as shop fronts, cafes and street scenes. The journey was followed by an exhibition in May 2003 titled "A Villa in Tuscany".
Jan returned to France in September 2003 and held another popular exhibition in May 2004 called An Affair with France.
Prizes
Jan has won the following art prizes:
* 2002 First prize oils - Richardson Exhibition
* 1999 People's Choice Award - Gunning Annual Art Show
* 1996 Overall Winner - Thredbo Art Award
* 1995 1st - Royal Canberra Art Show - Portraiture
* 1995 1st - Royal Canberra Art Show - Seascape

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