Whistlestop JUNE 2011
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Marin Landscapes Provide Artist With a Wide Canvas
J
an Buscho of San Rafael is grateful to have Marin as a canvas for her evocative oil paintings. “This area where I live – Marin County – has captured my imagination and has inspired me to paint a lot,” she says. “I will always keep at it until I get bored and I’m not even close to being bored. This is an ever-changing landscape – the lighting and seasons. Most of what I paint is along the Marin coast.” Jan has a Master’s degree in Transpersonal Psychology and Marketing, and is a trained graphic designer, but has never been far from painting. Currently she is Director of Marketing and Communications at Holy Names High School in Oakland. Her job is to market the school to girls interested in receiving a strong private secondary education. Her graphic design skills come in handy as she designs posters, brochures and other material used in that effort. Jan also is on the board of the Squaw Valley Writers. She has worked in ceramics and painted pastels in the past, but in 2001 began
oil painting. A favorite piece of hers, “Beyond the Farm,” was on exhibit during the month of May at the Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael. It was part of a juried show featuring Bay Area artists. “The inspiration for ‘Beyond the Farm’ was a workshop at Tomales Bay. We were invited to walk on beautiful farm property there and the result (White House Photograph by David Hume Kennerly)
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Jan Buscho of San Rafael with one of her oil paintings of a Marin scene.
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for me was this painting.” Jan also has exhibited her work at the Novato YMCA and at Tulley’s Coffee Shop at Town Center in Corte Madera. In mid-May, she and her husband, Bob, who is an avid gardener, hosted one of the Marin Open Studios, calling their exhibit “Art and the Garden.” When not working at her day continued on page 12
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