Jane Wallis and Donna Trent

Jane Wallis has been a resident of the Northwest for almost 34 years. She has traveled extensively to four contintents and loves to paint scenes from her home region as well as those encountered during her travels. She is a Master Pastelist in the Pastel Society of America, a Distinguished Pastelist at the Pastel Society of the West Coast, a signature member of the Northwest Pastel Society, and the Northwest Watercolor Society and a member of Oil Painters of America. She has won numerous awards in competitive exhibitions throughout the United States and has been published in the Pastel Journal and the PSA Pastelogram.

Her moody impressionist compositions are distinguished by brilliant color, rhythmic shapes, texture and a gestural manner of media application. She received her bachelor’s degree from Southwest Missouri State University with a major in art and did graduate work in education at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. She has taught art in schools at all levels including 14 years at Olympic College in Bremerton, WA. She has also taught studio painting at the Northwest College of Art and many private workshops including ones in Europe.

Donna Trent has spent most of her life in Northwest Washington, and now resides in Gig Harbor, WA, where she teaches classes and workshops in oil and pastel. Donna graduated from Seattle University with an area major in Art where she was taught the classical method of drawing and painting. She continued studies in several colleges and has taken workshops from nationally known instructors.

Donna is a signature member and past president of the Northwest Pastel Society; a member of the Oil Painter’s of America, Pastel Society of the West Coast, Pastel Society of America, and several local art organizations. Her work has been collected by the Oregon State University and by the Pierce County Arts for their permanent collections. She has been published in This Bountiful Place, Art About Agriculture, a 243 page publication by OSU. Her colorful impressionist paintings have been juried into many local, national and international exhibits. She has taught private classes for 16 years, taught 4 years in the Gig Harbor Public Schools, and taught local, regional and European workshops..