Jane Wallis American
Jane Wallis is a distinguished American landscape and plein-air painter whose evocative pastels and oils reflect a deep, emotive connection to place from the creeks and hills of her youth in the Missouri Ozarks to the misty coasts and forests of the Pacific Northwest. Her work resonates with a sensitivity to light, atmosphere, and memory, often capturing the quiet interplay between human presence and the natural world.
Jane Wallis is an American landscape painter whose work is rooted in a lifelong connection to nature. Raised among the creeks, hills, and wooded valleys of the Missouri Ozarks, she developed an early sensitivity to the rhythms and atmospheres of the land. After traveling widely throughout the United States and abroad, she eventually settled in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and children, where she has lived for more than forty years. The region’s forests, coastal light, and shifting weather continue to shape her artistic vision.
Wallis earned her bachelor’s degree in art from Southwest Missouri State University and pursued graduate studies at the University of Missouri in Kansas City. Over the course of her career, she has established herself as a respected painter and educator. She taught drawing for fourteen years at Olympic College, studio painting at the Northwest College of Art, and led numerous workshops, including annual travel workshops in France and Italy for six years. Her work has been featured in exhibitions across the United States and has appeared in Pastel Journal and the PSA Pastelogram.
Highly recognized within the pastel and painting communities, Wallis is a Master Pastelist of the Pastel Society of America, a Distinguished Pastelist of the Northwest Pastel Society and the Pastel Society of the West Coast, a Signature Member of the Northwest Watercolor Society, and an Associate-Exhibiting Member of the Oil Painters of America. She continues to explore the emotional and atmospheric qualities of landscape through her ongoing studio and plein-air practice.