Telephone: 01373 830941      Email: jan@jannesbittartwork.com

About Jan Nesbitt

 

Enchantment and Wonder, Magic and Surprise are the elements Jan finds in the natural world, and which she seeks to reflect and celebrate in her watercolour paintings.
Jan has worked with these themes for 30 years, both as a successful published illustrator and as a painter.

All of the paintings are for sale unless marked. To order please Contact Jan, and she will usually deal with your requests personally.
All images are painted on Arches Watercolour Paper and are presented with 3000 microns deep whitecore window mounts in front, and barrier card to protect image from back. Shaped pictures include a liner to remove them from the glass.
The pictures are framed in solid ash wood 2" wide (50mm), a few are in narrower ash wood frames.
All prices quoted include mounts and frames. For packaging and posting, paintings can be sold in mounts only, and prices adjusted accordingly.

Trade and Publisher enquiries welcome. Publishers worked for | Curriculum Vitae

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Curriculum Vitae



Work to be shown in 2007 : - Bay Tree Gallery, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire

2006



Work shown in: -
First View, the gallery at Stourhead, Wiltshire
La Strada, Frome
Fisherton Mill, Salisbury, Wiltshire
Yellow Moon Gallery, Holcombe, Radstock, Somerset

2005

 



Work shown in: -
Bay Tree Gallery, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire
First View, the gallery at Stourhead, Wiltshire
Rooksmoor Gallery, Bath, Somerset
Fisherton Mill, Salisbury, Wiltshire
Yellow Moon Gallery, Holcombe, Radstock, Somerset
2004

'One man' show booked for January 2004 at Wyeside Arts Centre, Builth Wells, Powys, Wales and interest from other Art Centres and galleries in Wales and England. Work was also shown in this year in Bay Tree Gallery, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire.

2003


Book illustration continued full time up to February 2003, including last year working on several Fairy Story books, and writing four 'Bug Books' which included illustrating and designing 3-D puppets for inclusion as part of each book. Publishers worked for

 

Decision to return to painting full time. My intention was always to combine this with illustration work, but time and deadlines have hardly allowed any space in which to do this. Ideas were piling up in the form of sketches, bits of writing etc. so I have taken the plunge. Work on sale in Rooksmoor Gallery, Bath, and also exhibited at Wyeside Arts Centre, Builth Wells, Powys, Wales
1993

Nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal for illustration for 'The Serpent Shell' by David Ross.

1983


Living near Bath, at Rode (where I still live), working full time as a freelance illustrator on a wide selection of books for children of all ages from realistic to fantasy, myths, magic, legends, poetry and humour.

1980

 

Now living in Cambridge. Started working as a freelance childrens book illustrator for Cambridge University Press who gave me my first book 'Legends of the sun and moon' on the strength of the paintings I showed them. This sold well for many years both here and the USA. Books followed in quick succession, for Oxford University Press and a large variety of well known British Publishers.
1979

Held successful 'one man' show at Wyeside Arts Centre, Builth Wells, Powys, Wales
1975


Now living in rural Mid-Wales, ...resumed painting full time once Piers and Tom were at school. Regularly sold work through a Craft Gallery in Newtown, Mid-Wales and undertook commissions
1971
My second son Tom was born, and again I combined being a mum with painting
1969

Now living back near Bath at the top of a beautiful valley, my first son Piers was born, so I combined being a mum with painting (when time allowed!)
1967-1969

Held exhibitions of my work at Hull Art Gallery, Chichester Gallery and Oxford Playhouse; combined with teaching art in schools in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and at Chippenham Technical College, Wiltshire and surrounding villages

1963-1967

Degree Course in Fine Art at Bath Academy of Art, Corsham, Wiltshire where I gained a BA Honours Degree


Publishers worked for
DENT/ORION HARPER COLLINS OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS BAREFOOT BOOKS LTD SCHOLASTIC CHILDRENS BOOKS
OYSTER BOOKS THE TEMPLAR COMPANY PLC WELSH ARTS COUNCIL
GRAY'S ADVERTISING GINN'S LETTS
MACMILLAN PAN EMAP PUBLICATIONS
EVANS BROTHERS LTD HEINEMANN YOUNG BOOKS HIPPO
LADYBIRD TRANSWORLD USBORNE
A+C BLACK PUBLISHERS LTD BELITHA PRESS COWLEY HUNTER ROBINSON LTD
BENTLY PRODUCTIONS - TV ROBERT FREDERICK LTD PARRAGON (FOR M&S)
LUTTERWORTH PRESS GECKO GOMER PRESS