Jan Lhormer lives and works in Falmouth, MA. Her practice is based in nature, which serves as a pathway to painting as a door to the spirit world. For Jan, the creative act serves as a ritual, requiring focus, reiteration, and devotion. Her current bodies of work, Skyscapes and In the Garden, are reflective of this ritualistic process. Jan's studio practice is informed by the landscape of her surroundings on Cape Cod, and by her sensations of environmental shifts. She channels changes on the ground and fluctuations of light through sensual uses of color in various painting media, and by employing treatments suggestive of subjects that interrelate and overlap, both tangible and ethereal. Jan's work has been exhibited widely throughout New England and beyond for over thirty years. Her work is held in many private collections and has been featured in The Boston Globe, Cape Cod Life Arts Edition, and Cape Arts Review Magazine. She has been awarded fellowships to the Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia Center For Creative Arts. In 2022 and 2023, Jan participated in a residency program administered by M. David & Co. Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.​Jan received her MFA in Painting in 1990 from The Boston University School of Visual Arts, where she also received her BFA. She also holds a BA in Art History from Colorado College. She currently teaches painting and drawing at Bridgewater State University, and she has published articles in Provincetown Arts Magazine, Art New England, and Cape Arts Review.