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As an artist time has become more precious to me. I have a degree in Art but I did not start painting until I was 50. At 50 I gave myself the gift of time in a more personal sense. Time at the easel. After 10 years painting continues to be a passion, a challenge and a teacher in my life. Painting is my way to seek the essentials of and express gratitude for the abundance surrounding me. Painting is an opportunity to speak without words.

Jane Ford

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Biography
Jane Ford received a BA in Art Education, Printmaking & Painting from University of California and Colorado State University. Currently she is a member of the Oil Painters of America and the Art students League of Denver.

Her figurative work was featured in Southwest Art November 2007, Art Values Start Your Collection. She was awarded the Oil Painters of America Shirl Smithson Memorial Scholarship in 2006. Her work was shown in the Oil Painters of America National Juried Exhibition in 2004 and Oil Painters of America Regional Exhibitions in 2005 & 2007 as well as the Salon International at the Greehouse Gallery in San Antonio in 2008. Her work is included in the permanent collection of the Children’s Hospital of Denver, Guaranty Bank of Denver as well as private collectors.

Jane is currently working on a project involving the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico. The Raumari (or running people) as the Tarahumara Indians call themselves, are an ancient tribe who have inhabited the Copper Canyon of Mexico for many centuries. In recent years drought conditions have been devastating to their population. Over the last 3 years she has traveled to the Napuchi Valley home of the Allaya family outside of Creel, MX. She has had the privilege of building relationships with the Tarahumara families of this valley. These paintings and many more will be used in fundraising events.