About The Artist
My Background
My name is Jane C. Jones. I’ve been proud to call Pleasant Garden, NC home all my life. I graduated from Southeast Guilford High School and then Famous Artist Commercial Art School. Art has always been a big part of my life using it for fun and relaxation while I was still working. But after retiring it was a way to stay busy and meet people who enjoy my art, watching me draw and gave me more time to share my gift.
I currently have ten limited edition Giclee prints. With a beloved beagle in all but one, even hidden in one. Currently my artwork is on the cover of four books; “The Legacy of the Meeting on the Hill” by Kay Davis Coltrane, “Centre Friends Cemetery” by Kay Davis Coltrane & Darlene S. Parsons, “Growing Memories” by Jane Kirkman Kimel and “Poet’s Seat” by Wilson Roberts. It is also on a commemorative plate to celebrate Centre Friends Sesquibicentennial in 2008 and has been on their bulletins each Sunday for many years.
Since 2009 I have shared my artwork by drawing to music for programs to groups and meetings, at coffee shops and for different nursing homes including at Clapp’s Nursing Home in Pleasant Garden
where there I go once each month. The residents there look forward to seeing me come in and try to guess what is going to appear on the paper that I draw in pastels for them. I leave it for them all to enjoy
later. This ministry has helped me share this gift and it has been well received.
In 2020 I was blessed to be welcomed with the opportunity to display by artwork at the Roasted Coffee Depot in Graham, NC. It has truly been a great partnership working with them. I have met so many
wonderful people by being there and have gotten to do many commissioned pieced through being there. And to also paint in oil, acrylic and pastels in front of the public on an open house on Saturday
morning there has been awesome.
In 2022 I had another honor. Wildwood Farms in Floyd, Va. Commissioned me to paint two 18x24 painting to hang in their sponsored room at the Floyd Hotel. One of the “Music Jam” and the other a “Cruise In”. These two along with three others of mine are also in that room. What an honor.