814-Uncaster Farming, Saturday, October 7, 1995
LINDA WILLIAMS
Bedford Co. Correspondent
BEDFORD (Bedford Co.)—As
a farm wife, Jane Cayman sees
beauty in a rustic building
entwined with creeping vines, a
Mail Pouch Tobacco sign, a field
of fluffly sheep.
Scenes such as these make her
fingers twitch to put them into pen
and ink or pastel sketches.
Jane’s woik is appreciated in
public buildings and private col
lections in a number of American
states and three European
countries.
Now semi-retired, Jane and her
husband George spend their win
ters in Florida and during the
northern warm months, live in a
quaint log cabin on the family
fpn. Their son, Doug and his
family live in the big farm house
me Cayman in her log cabin Bedford County home with some o'
Artist Paints Things She Loves
and do the -farming.
Jane’s painting is done during
the summer months in a charming
loft studio. Three smiling pigs,
hummingbirds buzzing about a
bouquet of Iris flowers, and an old
rocking chair, are only a few of
the rural subjects she holds dear.
During the winer months she
sees the delicate beauty of
seashells, and the more vividly
colored flowers of a warmer cli
mate as matte pleasers.
Her life as an artist began at
Moore College of Art in Philadel
phia. Pursuing a career as a fash
ion illustrator, Jane studied the
anatomy, bones, muscles, and
draping clothing on the body.
“There’s a lot of courses most
people never connect with art,”
she says.
Shortly after moving to Bedford
Several Bedford County farms Inspired paintings such as these.
County, baby Caymans began
arriving, competing for Mom’s
artistic hours. They totaled four in
number including Susie, Patty,
Douglas, and Gregory. “With four
children, the farm, and for awhile
an ice cream stand, I didn’t have
much time left for painting,” Jane
admits.
“I did keep busy with volunteer
work. When someone needed a
poster for something, they always
thought of me, and I was glad to
do it to keep my art interest alive.”
In 1976, with the children test
ing their own waters, Jane created
a Bicentennial coloring book and
then designed a coloring book for
Old Bedford Village. “I had good
success with those,” she recalls.
After another short career as a
Southern Alleghenies representa-
ler palm
tive, Jane decided to re-pursue her
artistic abilities. “I want to keep
expanding,” she says today. “I’m
happiest when I have a paint brush
in my hand. Ideas keep coming to
me, sometimes I get awake at
night with an idea in my head and
I can’t sleep until I get up and put
it on paper.”
Locally, her works are on dis
play at Jean Bonnet Tavern. Lam
berts Framing, and Old Bedford
Villagd'as well as several art galle
ries. Thirteen of her pen and ink
sketches of Bedford County land
marks are located at the Bedford
County Courthouse including
such picturesque local attractions
as the Everett Railroad, a Schells
burg church, and the Rainsburg
Seminary.
Other marketing is done at craft
shows. “I love doing all of them,”
Jane admits. “I enjoy talking with
the people and, of course, I appre
ciate the interest they take in my
work.”
She sells both originals and
prints with most craft show items
being already framed.
Memorial Day at Boalsburg
begins the season. “That’s always
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“Taming off the heat and letting toe country to make things run
the pot pie set awhile,” he said, smoothly. It really helps when the
It lakes hundreds of volunteers weather cooperates with moderate
rk- nhr ' the Lar - temperatures and no rain.
Ings.
Herb Werner stirs a pot of homemade chicken corn soup
cooked outside in black iron kettles over gas flames.
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Fair Success
In Lampeter
a big one,” she says. “There’s a
good attendance and they give me
an excellent location.”
In June, Jane is one of the 40
craftsmen represented at the Old
Bedford Village craft show. Other
shows are Roaring Spring Home
coming, the Claysburg Street Fair,
Mountain Craft Days at Somerset
and her favorite. Fall Foliage in
Bedford.
“Everyone in our family looks
forward to Fall Foliage,” says this
artist who has her Fall Foliage
stand on Juliana Street in an
attractive tent surrounded by the
fruits of her talents.
By the end of October, she is
ready to return to Florida where
she participates in an artists work
shop, displays her work at a mem
ber show, and also sells privately.
This fall she will be a part of a
Japanese-American International
Watercolor Exhibition. There will
be 70 watercolors in the show,
with 3S from each country.
Artists arc from boroughs of
Tokyo and four Pennsylvana
Counties. The opening reception
will be held at the Philip Dressier
Center for the Arts in Somerset in
September.
Fair and all ihe other fairs around