Jane Batalden Palmer employs the fluidity of watercolor to evoke mystic natural scenes, masterfully using the traditional medium in unique and unconventional ways. In every breathtaking painting Palmer actualizes her belief in art as something uplifting, "bringing a sense of beauty into a world that badly needs it." Her works are "ethereal, other-worldly, vibrant, vivid watercolors, created with a complex combination of pours, evaporations, resists, controlled flows and finished with meticulous brushwork." Dexterously mastering a combination of complex techniques to maintain control of her medium, Palmer superimposes plant, animal and environmental forms upon her canvases. The result is always a luminous painting that explores and reveals the beauty and interconnectedness of all living things with one another and with their environment.
After twenty years of teaching the sciences in Florida, Jane Batalden Palmer retired to battle a life threatening illness and focus her energies on her artwork. Triumphing daily over her pain gives her the determination to connect and reconnect with nature, and of course to paint
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