Penticton Western News, August 9, pg.11, 2024
West Bench Artist Creatives Works Featuring Fruit.
Category Archives: Press
2024
Front Cover Penticton Herald Feature, August 3, 2024
Beauty and Struggles of Orchards Inspire Okanagan Artist
2023
Art Avenue, Spring, 2023, painting in Limitless exhibition pg. 9
Art Avenue, Spring, 2023, workshop information pg. 21
Penticton Art Gallery Newsletter, May/June 2023, pg. 20
This painting can be found under New Work on this website, for full view.
2018
A.I.R.S.
Annual International Representational Show, 2018
Catalogue, p. 17
Art Avenue
A Federation of Canadian Artists Publication -January/February 2016, pg 23
The inside view- A series of articles looking into professional artists studios
Galleries West Magazine
“Art to Collect”, Summer 2016, page 16
A.I.R.S.
Annual International Representational Show, 2016
Catalogue, p. 15
NEXUS
Kelowna Art Gallery
(Catalogue cover and exhibition piece)
NEXUS Histories and Communities: An exhibition of works from the permanent collection of the Kelowna Art Gallery in celebration of the Gallery’s 30th anniversary. The history of Kelowna is inextricably linked to the orchard industry that formed the backbone of the Okanagan valley’s agriculturally-based economy for many decades. The works of art in this section all portray the fruit orchards, using varying approaches and media.
In the section OUT IN THE ORCHARDS, local artists Mary Smith McCulloch, Mary Bull, Jan Crawford and Jamie Evrard all interpret their long-term relationship with the Okanagan culture and the orchard landscape. Jan Crawford is the first artist in this section to depart from a purely pictoral approach in her series of Monoprints (the Packing House Series) from 2001 that have both visual quotations of beautiful vintage fruit crate labels, and her own drawn and painted images interpreted from old photographs of the fruit workers on the job: picking loading wrapping, and packing fruit.
Gallery of South Okanagan
Jan Crawford: Re-labelling an Okanagan Identity
Curator’s Statement
June 7 – July 20, 2002
My first experience with the work of Jan Crawford occurred upon my arrival in Penticton in October, 1996 to assume the role of Director/Curator at the Art Gallery of the South Okanagan. At that time Crawford’s Red Ladder exhibition was on display. The exhibition included a series of brightly coloured monotypes (the first I had ever encountered) depicting orchard still-life objects and landscape images, as well as a group of ceramic fruit including pears and apples and of course the authentic red ladder, the signature icon of the exhibition.
