Short Bio
Jane’s art resonates advocacy for the water on our planet and promote protection of watersheds to the ocean. Her “Sea Stories” paintings heighten the awareness of the sea’s importance, beauty, and fragility.
Statement
Most of my memories revolve around the coast or the deep ocean blue. Sailing on it, submerged in its lusty turquoise embrace or at the very least staring at it yearning to feel, smell and taste it. Possibly these feelings consume me because on the water is the only place I feel at peace, at home, content.
My paintings are stories about my life on the water. Perfect days spent scudding along on the wavelets that reflect diamonds or bashing headlong into waves trying to survive the storm. I am grateful to have an unusual history of waterborne adventures. I want to share my stories and experiences with the audience in hopes of heightening their awareness of its importance, beauty and fragility.
Inspired by watching my childhood sandcastles fall to the impertinent waves, my Sea Level Chronicles are 3-D “people and animals” meant to bring awareness to the increased flooding of coastal areas as well as the threats of permanent inundation.
First moved by the beautiful images by Jacques Cousteau in contrast to the hideous poisoned waters of Galveston Bay, I have wanted to clean up the water. Wisdom of the Waves is meant to inspire people to do something, even if it is just one thing.
Biography
Jane Lawton Baldridge is a Signature member of the American Society of Marine Artists and the National Association of Women Artists. Her passion is creating artworks about water.
Recently she received of a Florida DOS 2023/2024 Individual Artist Specific Cultural grant; had solo exhibits, Oceana Phenomena: Sea Stories, Sea Level Chronicles & Wisdom of the Waves 2024, Cornell Art Museum, Delray FL; 2023 Navigation Oceana, in Lake Worth, FL, 2022 Oceana Phenomena: Keys Sea Level Stories, The Studios of Key West, Key West, FL, 2022 Oceana Phenomena: Chesapeake Sea Level Stories, Annapolis Maritime Museum, Annapolis, MD and 2021 Portfolios: Jane Lawton Baldridge, A Sea Story Girl, Elliott Museum (June-October 31st), curated by Alicia Weber, Hutchinson Island, FL.
Jane participated in 2023-24 The American Society of Marine Artists 19th National Exhibition, The Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY following was the The Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Winona, MN, World of Water at The Cornell Museum, Delray Beach, FL, Emerge Yourself : Art with Purpose, with Michelle Drummond in Lake Worth, FL, Sensations at the Museum of Arts & Sciences, Daytona Beach, FL. Maritime Art in Coos Art Museum, ONE ART SPACE, Times Square, The Musée du Louvre, Lincoln Center (2x), the Museum of Computer Art, the Mint Museum, the Cameron Museum of Art, the Fayetteville Museum of Art and the World Festival of Art on Paper (Slovenia). She has been published and her 911 Tribute, is in the print archives of the Library of Congress.
Her film Wisdom of the Waves is an official selection in 33 International Film Festival and has won 13 Awards and 9 semi-finalist designations.
She attended California Institute of the Arts and the Alfred G. Glassel Museum School.
Resume / CV
JANE LAWTON BALDRIDGE, ASMA, NAWA
1978-1982The Alfred G. Glassel Museum School of Art Houston, TX
1977-1978 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1974 High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Houston, TX
Awards/ Honors/ Grants:
2023 Florida DOS Specific Cultural Project Grant: Oceana Phenomena: Sea Level Stories.
2023 DRUK International Film Festival, Best Film on Nature / Environment / Wildlife
2023 8 & Halfilm Awards-Cannes Submission, Best Indie Narrative Short & Best Documentary Short
2023 Filmzen International Film Competition, Best Short Documentary
2023 New York Movie Awards- NYC, New York, Gold Award: Short Documentary
2023 World Film Carnival – Singapore(WFCS), Best Film on Nature / Environment / Wildlife
2022 Sweet Democracy Film Awards- Cannes, Best Art House Film
2022 Swedish International Film Festival – Arvika, Best Documentary Short
2022 8 & Halfilm Awards-Rome, Best Documentary Short
2021 S. Magnet Knapp Memorial Award, 132nd Annual Members Exhibition, NYC
2021 Women Supporting the Arts Grant, for Glimmer project collaboration
2020-Honorable Mention, Art Ideal Magazine, Circle Foundation for the Arts
2020-2nd place Art Will Beat Covid Online Exhibition
Exhibitions:
Selected Solo Shows:
2024 Oceana Phenomena: Sea Stories, Sea Level Chronicles and Wisdom of the Waves, Cornell Art Museum, Delray Beach, Florida
2023 Navigation Oceana, Palm Beach Design Showroom, Lake Worth, FL;
2022 “The South Florida Oceana Phenomena – Sea Level Stories”, Sanger and Zabar Project Galleries at The Studios of Key West, Key West, Florida
2022 “Chesapeake Bay edition of Oceana Phenomena – Sea Level Stories”, Annapolis Maritime Museum, Annapolis Maryland
2021 “Portfolios: Jane Lawton Baldridge, A Sea Story Girl,” Elliott Museum (June-October 31st),
curated by Alicia Weber, Hutchinson Island, FL
2018 MASS Artwalk May , Fort Lauderdale Featured Artist
2012 Jane Lawton Baldridge, Art @ 211, Southport, NC
2001 Stories, Past & present, UNC-W, Wilmington, NC, Invitation
2000 Paths, South Eastern Community College, Whiteville, NC
1999 Stories, The Gallery at WHQR, Wilmington, NC
1998 Jane Lawton Baldridge, Creative Resource Gallery, Wilmington, NC
1997 UNCW Warwick Center, Wilmington, NC
1997 UNCW Student Union Center, Wilmington, NC
1993 Light, Waves, Water, University of North Carolina - Wilmington, NC
1993 Light, Waves, Water, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
Selected Group Shows
2023 The World of WATER, Cornell Art Museum, Delray Beach, FL
2023 Sensations, FLAG Symposium, Museum of Arts & Sciences, Daytona, FL
2023 Art Wynwood, Miami, FL
2023 Emerge Yourself : Art with Purpose, with Michelle Drummond at the Palm Beach Design Showroom, Lake Worth, FL
2022 Be Squared, Court House Cultural Center, Stuart, FL
2022 Coos Art Museum’s 28th Maritime Art Exhibition, Coos Bay, Oregon
2022 Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary, Palm Beach FL
2022 GLIMMER – A Glow Show 901 Hub, Stuart, FL
2022 Women of the Showroom, Palm Beach Design Showroom, Lake Worth
2022 Oil & Abstract, Palm Beach Design Showroom, Lake Worth
2022 January Exhibit, The Palm Room Gallery, Sewall’s Point, FL
2022 MCOST Preview Exhibit, The Elliott Museum, Hutchinson Island, FL
2021 132nd Annual Members' Exhibition, One Art Space, New York, NY
Professional Affiliations:
Signature Membership in the American Society of Marine Artists
Signature Member, National Association of Women Artists
Florida Artist Group
Arts Council of Martin County
Martin Artisans Guild
Current Gallery representation:
Palm Beach Design Showroom, Lake Worth
Steidel Contemporary Fine Arts, Palm Beach
The Inn at Bald Head island, Bald Head Island, NC
The Palm Room Art Gallery, Sewall’s Point, FL
Refind, Bay Head, NJ
In response to sea level rise, the powerful storms that impact our coasts, and the lack of moral compass that erodes society, I continue to create artworks on canvas, sculptures and film. The paintings attempt to bring the viewer closer to the oceans, bays and rivers in hopes of creating a stronger relationship and developing connection. The sculptures attract the viewer while engaging them in environmental issues such as sea level rise and subsidence. Sea Stories and Sea Level Stories can be seen as a visual metaphor for the decadent course humans have taken from our own nature and our neglected responsibility toward this ecosystem which has nourished our existence.
