Janet Howard-Fatta

I am a live event painter. Wedding painting has been my main focus of work for the last 8 years... I organize a weekly figure drawing session in my community, this is my playtime.

I am passionately dedicated to painting. I started oil painting when
was 12 years old. Painting from life or on location enables me to use all of my senses. I work quickly and intuitively, laying down a damp tone on the canvas and then create compositional indications in paint of the subject. I try to feel the land and how I am connected to it. Time of day, atmosphere, temperature, light, movement, season...all inform my paintings. This allows sensory exploration into a combination of representation and painterly abstraction. At the same time, I use illusion to visually represent what draws us in and brings our insides out. When it feels like a poem, I know it is completed.

I serve on the board of directors of my Orange County Arts Council, NY.

High School of Art & Design, NYC
Pratt Institute, BFA, Painting, Brooklyn, NY

"Nature Inspired: Plein-Air and Beyond" Group Exhibit 2016, Blue Hill Art & Cultural Center, Pearl River, NY

"The Flower Series", Solo, The Grange, Warwick NY, September 2017

The Big Draw, Beacon, NY, The Catalyst Gallery , 2016
Orange County Arts Council Members Show 2016
"Field & Flower" a two person exhibit, OCRM, NY 2016
Orange County Open Studio Tour 2015-2005
Sea & Sky" at the Grange, May 2015
Applewood Orchard & Winery, The Art Farm Trail, The Wallkill River Gallery, Montgomery NY, 2014 & 2015
Solo Exhibit, The Natural Wine Co. Wlmsbrg, Bklyn 2015
Local Color, Solo Exhibit, Cafe a La Mode, Warwick, NY 2013
Landscape Exhibit, Traillworks, Newton, NJ, July-August, 2012
Collage Gallery, October-January, Warwick, NY 2011
Orange County Arts Federation 46th Annual Juried Show, Newburgh NY, November 2011 - (Best of Show!)
Horizon- A landscape Show, Gallery Warwick, Warwick, NY, October 2009
Art on the Trail, Highland Falls Library, Highland Falls, NY October, 2009
Crib Gallery, 4 Artists, Chester, New York, June, 2008
Beacon Artists Union, Line & the Golden Rectangle, Beacon, NY, April 2009
Drawings, Gallery Warwick, Warwick, NY, February 2009
McWen Street Gallery, Warwick, NY October 2008
Art in the Garden, ...