JANET LOUVAU HOLT
janetlouvauholt@comcast.net
EDUCATION: Mills College, Oakland, CA.; Univ. of California, Berkeley, B.A.
MEDIA: Acrylic, collage, colored pencil, mixed media, oil, printmaking,
watercolor.
COLLECTIONS:
Portland Art Museum, Gilkey Center
Oregon History Center
Mid-Columbia Medical Center
St. Vincent’s Hospital, Portland, OR
Hallie Ford Museum, Willamette University, Salem, OR
Private collections in North America and Scotland
GALLERY REPRESENTATION:
Attic Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Bush Barn Gallery, Salem, Oregon
Portland Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery, Portland, OR
White Bird Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR
PUBLICATIONS: Best of Colored Pencil II, Rockport, 1994; Curnow, Creative
Colored Pencil, Rockport, 1995
OTHER: Designed needlepoint for Temple Beth Israel, Portland; Christ
Church, Lake Oswego, OR; St. Paul’s, Salem
Docent, Portland Art Museum since 1965 – fully active
Board of Trustees, Portland Art Museum, 1993-1999
Painting Autumn Northwest VIII rented for scene in motion picture
Zero Effect, filmed in Portland, OR, 1997, starring Ryan O’Neill
Teach workshops and do demos on request
Used to teach in extension program Pacific Northwest College of Art
Watercolor Society of Oregon, Portland Art Museum
ARTISTS STATEMENT: Drawing has been an important part of my life since childhood. Still, I am smitten by the lusciousness of color, the interactions of shape and pattern. I believe that art has to do with love, with caring enough about something to celebrate it or to protest when others seem not to care. I love the gesture of brushwork, the flow of paint, the freedom of choice. On the other hand, I also love to draw with precision, and so my drawings are usually more representational than my paintings. Paintings and prints (woodcuts, linocuts, collagraphs, monotypes, etc.) may be completely spontaneous, done from the imagination or may be done on location. I consider experimentation valuable for it leads to development of a new series. I always have at least one work in progress.