“Mountains are a very powerful image for me.

“They are my answer to the stress of modern life. Mountains are where I go for peace, and it is this overwhelming feeling of strength and calm that I want to express in my oil paintings.

“Other common themes in my art are roads and streams. They seem to be inviting the viewer to travel with the artist. Where is it leading? What is waiting around the bend?”

“I live in a wonderful place and have the luck to have a panoramic view of the mountains and the changing sky above them from my home.”

“It is a constant inspiration, and I want my work to convey the passion I feel for this natural world.”

Before moving to the mountains, Jane Colvin Desonier lived in Louisiana where she earned a BA in Fine Arts from the University of New Orleans and later received classical training at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts. Jane has studied at the Scottsdale Artists’ School and is a member of the prestigious Oil Painters of America.

Jane Desonier currently shows her paintings at the Asheville Gallery of Art and the Carlton Gallery in Banner Elk, NC. Her work can also be viewed at www.janedesonier.com.