{"id":41,"date":"2025-09-12T12:08:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T19:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/janinehallartist.ca\/?page_id=41"},"modified":"2026-02-01T14:55:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:55:40","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/janinehallartist.ca\/?page_id=41","title":{"rendered":"about"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since graduating art school in Calgary from what was then the Alberta College of Art in 1987, I have consistently worked to develop my skills in representational painting and drawing which are the only disciplines I work in.&nbsp; Portraiture is a large component of my studio practice but not the only one as I enjoy most genres of painting, including landscape and still life. After balancing domestic family and creative studio life in Calgary for most of my adult life I have relocated to a smaller centre in a nature setting in the interior of British Columbia and enjoy a very quiet life devoted to my art practice, contemplation and perpetual study.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-text-display has-large-font-size is-style-text-display--1 wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-text-display has-large-font-size is-style-text-display--2 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Curriculum Vitae <\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/janinehallartist.ca\/?page_id=245\">please see here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-contrast-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-60bf8c67e2b6a9a3c02661d382b116e1 wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since graduating art school in Calgary from what was then the Alberta College of Art in 1987, I have consistently worked to develop my skills in representational painting and drawing which are the only disciplines I work in.&nbsp; 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