Janice Baragwanath To Offer Next SCAN Program

The Society of Creative Arts of Newtown will have a watercolor demonstration by Janice Baragwanath on Wednesday, April 11, at 7:30 pm. Ms Baragwanath will paint a portrait in watercolor from a model.

The program is open to the public free of charge and will be held in the lower meeting room of Newtown Meeting House, 31 Main Street.

Janice  Baragwanath studied at Rhode Island School of Design and Cooper Union School of Art in New York City. Additional studies included portraiture with Daniel E. Greene in his North Salem studio, watercolor with John Falato at Paier College of Art, and figure drawing with Steven Assael at the New York Academy of Art. A popular teacher and workshop instructor, Ms Baragwanath has been teaching in her Trumbull studio for over twenty years.  

Working in a realistic style using either transparent watercolor or opaque gouache, Ms Baragwanath explores a variety of subject matter including portraits, New England architecture, and Caribbean landscapes. Her work was featured in Watercolor Magazine Winter 1999 and Winter 2000 and her commissioned  portraits of Connecticut Superior Court Justices hang in the courthouses of Bridgeport and Stamford.

Ms Baragwanath exhibits frequently and has been included in national exhibitions at the Salmagundi Club and the National Arts Club in New York City; New Britain Museum of Art, Discovery Museum, University of Hartford and Fairfield University in Connecticut, and the Attleboro Museum in Massachusetts. She has also exhibited with Hudson Valley Art Association, Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Society, Allied Artists of America, Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists, Connecticut Women Artists and the New England Watercolor Society.  Her paintings have won numerous awards.

In 2003 Ms Baragwanath won the  SCAN “Best in Show”  Award and in 2005 The Taunton Press Award, also presented during a SCAN show.  She has had two one-woman shows at Beaux Arts Gallery in Woodbury.