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Janet Badger
"Primavera", mezzotint and etching, 5"x6", 2007
Visit my online gallery: www.etchetc.com
Contact Me: janet.badger@gmail.com
Artist Statement
I've been an artist since I could first hold a pencil, and a printmaker since my first college etching course.
The limitless variety of printmaking techniques has kept me fascinated and challenged. My subject matter of choice is the human face and figure.
I'm not as interested in a true likeness as I am in capturing the spirit of humanity on an individual level. I like to think that I succeed now and then.
Somewhere along the way I realized that I couldn't take credit for the talent I was born with; it was a gift.
I can, however, take credit for the effort I've made through the years to master my craft, and for continuing with my art
despite the demands of family and the labor of moving often.
Biography:
Born in North Hornell, New York, Janet Best Badger spent her formative years in Beaumont, Texas.
She received her BFA from the University of Texas at Austin in 1982. She also studied printmaking at the University of Nevada,
Las Vegas, and at Moore College of Art in Philadelphia. She has lived, worked, and exhibited in many places, from Texas to Nevada,
Antigua (West Indies), Puerto Rico, Mississippi, and Louisiana. She spent three years in Moscow, Russia, working with etchers
Leonid Zorin and Luba Yukina, and had a one-woman show at Studio Nivinskovo. Her work has also been exhibited in London.
Married, with three sons, Janet Best Badger currently resides in Bangor, Maine.
Her website is www.etchetc.com, and her work may also be found at www.womenprintmakers.com, the StoneMetal Press in San Antonio,
Texas, and at Cornerstone Fine Arts in Bangor, Maine.
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