Jane Davis
Jane Davis was brought up in Penn Yan, New York in a home on the shore of Keuka Lake, which is perhaps the prettiest of New York State's lovely Finger Lakes.
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Her father, Charles Maxwell Plaisted, taught Art and Journalism at nearby Keuka College, and was himself a rather renowned artist, who at one time, even drew a published comic strip. Jane earned her Bachelor's degree at Keuka College and then struck out on her own, moving to Washington, D.C. and working as a secretary in the State Department. After getting married, she moved to Chicago and worked as a secretary at the Ben May Cancer institute at the University of Chicago for Dr. Charles Huggins, eventual winner of the Nobel Prize. After a while, though, her three children came along and she left the workplace to devote herself to them. Some years later, as the children grew up, she was finally able to concentrate on her painting, and over the last twenty years, has steadily developed her craft. She loves to read books and magazines, and, when she sees interesting photographs she gets ideas for her paintings. A typical painting is an amalgam of various ideas she gets from here and there, and these are blended together in her realistic, yet individualistic style. She is delighted with animals, and the relation of animals and people as friends, in various environments. She is also intrigued by colorful vistas, some bright and sunlit, and others crepuscular and moody.
She hopes to share all this with you.
