By permission of the artist, The Cyber Art Show is pleased to feature the first of two 12-piece Exhibitions of works by American landscape artist Jan Norsetter, (born 1950, in Wisconsin, USA).

Jan Norsetter has been painting and drawing since childhood. She studied art in college and graduated with a B.S in art education, and an M.A. and M.F.A, from the University of Wisconsin,­ Madison. She focused on printmaking during and immediately after college. Now she is painting: landscape, still life and rosemaling. Her favorite medium is oil painting en plein air. Local, rural scenes including the Sugar River and its surrounds are favorite painting venues. She has also painted en plein air in the rest of Wisconsin, Minnesota, New Mexico, Colorado, Idaho, Louisiana, Wyoming, Italy and Ireland. Plein air is all about capturing the mood of a day or a specific scene­­ showing the extraordinary beauty of the ordinary world around us.

Over the years Norsetter has studied oil painting with Diane Rath, Scott Christensen, Marc Hanson and Jonathan Wilde. She admires the landscapes of Theodore Robinson, Richard Schmid, Clyde Aspevig, Scott Christensen, Edgar Payne and Percy Grey to name a few. She has also studied the Norwegian folk art of rosemaling with Norwegian painters: Unni Lien, Sigmund Aarseth, Nils Ellingsgard, Turid Helle Fatland and American painters Pam Rucinski, Gayle Oram, Eldrid Arntsen, Nancy Schmid, Joanne McVey, and Jean Giese.

Norsetter lives and works in Wisconsin with her artist husband, Jon Sutcliffe. She has a dedicated studio in her home but considers much of the outdoors to be her studio, too. She is represented by Zazen Gallery in Paoli WI and The Pink Llama Gallery in Cedarburg WI.

 

                     Select Exhibitions/Competitions  

 

● Mineral Point Paint Out Plein Air Competition, Mineral Point WI Honorable Mention winner, August 2015

 

● Zazen Gallery, Paoli WI Jan Norsetter Plein Air Paintings , April 17 - May 31, 2015

 

● Center for Visual Arts, Wausau WI juried show Midwest Seasons Exhibition, January 2015

 

● Pink Llama Gallery, Cedarburg WI One Person Show, November 1-30, 2014

 

● Theodore Robinson Plein Air Competition, Evansville WI Grand Prize winner, October 2014

 

● Mineral Point Paint Out Plein Air Competition, Mineral Point WI Honorable Mention winner, August 2014  

    

● Vesterheim Museum, Decorah IA National 

Exhibition of Folk Art in the Norwegian Tradition , July 2014 • Honorable Mention award for rosemaling

 

● Friends of the Rock River Plein Air Competition, Beloit WI Angus Young purchase award winner, June 2014

 

● Wisconsin State Rosemaling Association, Stoughton,WI 47th Wisconsin State Rosemaling

Exhibit, May 2014 • First Place award and Best of Show award for rosemaling

 

● Vesterheim Museum, Decorah IA National Exhibition of Folk Art in the Norwegian Tradition, July 2013 • Second Place award for rosemaling

 

● Theodore Robinson Plein Air Competition, Evansville WI Grand Prize winner, June 2013

 

● Zazen Gallery, Paoli WI Travel Paintings en Plein Air One Woman Show, April 2013