JANE SKAAR COLEMAN
Artist Biography
After graduating from the University of Denver and teaching art for six years I began painting full-time. Working in watercolor and oil, my subjects are the diverse beauty of the western landscape and its wildlife, animals, and the western lifestyle in Wyoming and Arizona.
Major exhibitions have include the Desert Caballeros Western Museum’s Cowgirl Up!, the American Academy of Equine Art, Women Artists of the West, The Mountain Oyster Club, the Cheyenne Western Spirit Art Show, and formerly the C.M. Russell Auction and Quick Draw in Great Falls, MT and the top 100 Art for the Parks show held in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and the Ellensburg National Art Show and Auction in Ellensburg, WA.
Her recent awards include a second place in two-dimensional work at the 46th Annual Women Artists of the West (WAOW) exhibition at the Hanna Gallery in Fredericksburg, TX, the 48th Annual at the Price Tower in Bartlesville, OK, the 49th National Exhibition at Mary Williams Fine Arts Gallery in Boulder, CO. and last year the 51st Annual held at The Museum of Western Art in Kerrville,TX.. Her paintings were also juried into the Oil Painter’s of America’s Virtual Western Regional Exhibition at the Illume Gallery of Fine Art, St. George, UT in 2020 and the 2021 Western Regional Exhibition of Traditional Oils at the Mark Arts Gallery in Wichita, KS. in 2022.
Permanent collections in Wyoming include the Governor’s Mansion, Wells Fargo Bank, Central Wyoming College Foundation, Bonneville Transloaders Inc., Community Fine Arts Center, Rock Springs, Dubois Museum and Community Headwaters Center, and many private collections throughout the United States and Europe.
Donating to charitable events are my way of giving back to the community.