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Jan Collins Selman
Selman is an award winning artist best known for her pastels and oils of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. She was educated at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Ma.Which she had attended on a National Scholastic Arts Scholarship.
Her Expessionistic landscape paintings have won her a place in the permanent collections of the Cape Museum of Fine Arts (Dennis, Ma.), The Duxbury Art Museum Complex (Duxbury, Ma.), and the Provincetown Art Museum (Provincetown, Ma.).
She is a member of the Pastel Society of America, The Copley Society, The Provincetown Art Association, and the Cape Cod Art Association.
She won the National Grumbacher Gold Medal for Best Painiting for oils at the All New England Show Competition at the Cape Cod Art Association (1987), and "Best in Show " at the Falmouth Artists Guild (Falmouth, Ma.) in 1985.
Being on the "cutting edge" of computer art, Ms. Selmans" one woman show of Giclee prints (pronounced "Zheeclay" for the French for "spraying of Ink") was presented at the Cape Museum of Fine Arts in November of 1996, where ten of the pieces were inducted into their permanent collection and shown as the GARDEN SERIES. These prints are now available in signed, limited, editions at her own gallery in Falmouth, Ma. on Cape Cod, as well as here on her web site.
Click here to see the Garden Series
Ms. Selman is thrilled to finally be able to display ALL of the many areas of art that she enjoys working in.
On any given day the visiitor may find works of hers in oil, pastel. monotype, woodcuts, etchings, and both digital fine art originals, and fine art prints.
Her Expessionistic landscape paintings have won her a place in the permanent collections of the Cape Museum of Fine Arts (Dennis, Ma.), The Duxbury Art Museum Complex (Duxbury, Ma.), and the Provincetown Art Museum (Provincetown, Ma.).
She is a member of the Pastel Society of America, The Copley Society, The Provincetown Art Association, and the Cape Cod Art Association.
She won the National Grumbacher Gold Medal for Best Painiting for oils at the All New England Show Competition at the Cape Cod Art Association (1987), and "Best in Show " at the Falmouth Artists Guild (Falmouth, Ma.) in 1985.
Being on the "cutting edge" of computer art, Ms. Selmans" one woman show of Giclee prints (pronounced "Zheeclay" for the French for "spraying of Ink") was presented at the Cape Museum of Fine Arts in November of 1996, where ten of the pieces were inducted into their permanent collection and shown as the GARDEN SERIES. These prints are now available in signed, limited, editions at her own gallery in Falmouth, Ma. on Cape Cod, as well as here on her web site.
Click here to see the Garden Series
Ms. Selman is thrilled to finally be able to display ALL of the many areas of art that she enjoys working in.
On any given day the visiitor may find works of hers in oil, pastel. monotype, woodcuts, etchings, and both digital fine art originals, and fine art prints.
