This exhibition is about place in relation to the landscape. The work speaks as a healing, a settling in, or an appreciation of the here and now. The natural landscape has much to teach us about what really matters to the earth and its creatures, and what matters most within us. My wish for the world is to connect earth with body and body with spirit.
My paintings are about moving through nature – in the landscape and within our own nature. They’re also about the simple pleasure of the presence of light, both near and far, and paint itself.
Place is a vital part of my work. I have deep roots in the San Francisco Bay Area, where I have a rich history. I also have a home in Sweden, where I have been traveling for the past 27 years. In painting the nature in these two places, I have come to know them and myself in them.
In these times of global change, I want to share my belief in the importance of connection to one’s immediate environment and finding a salve, a sense of peace, a love for holding all that is right here.
This work offers the Holter community an opportunity to reflect on the beauty of the natural world and the beauty within.
Janet Jacobs has deep roots in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she has a rich history. She received a BFA in Drawing and Printmaking from the California College of the Arts and an MFA in Sculpture and Painting from Mills College. She’s very pleased to be having her first solo museum show at The Holter Museum of Art. Janet is represented by Eleanor Harwood Gallery in San Francisco and was shown at the 2025 San Francisco Art Fair. She’ll be having an exhibition at Dominican University of California in the summer of 2028. Her works are in private collections in the United States, Scandinavia, and Europe, including the JP Morgan Chase Art Collection.
Janet grew up in San Francisco after spending some of her childhood living in India and travelling abroad. She absorbed the sounds and textures, colors and movements of these places, taking quiet internal notes and learning how to observe. Looking – both out and within – is a foundational aspect of her work.
Janet now resides in both Northern California and in Sweden and paints landscapes inspired by each place. She’s working with themes of spaciousness, using transparent layers of color and light that speak to near and far. Her work explores our individual memory as well as memory held within the earth.
In times of global change, her exhibition at the Holter offers viewers a reminder of how connection to place can give us a salve, a sense of peace, and a love for holding all that is right here.
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