Jan Boettcher began her journey into the Norwegian folk art of Rosemaling in 1980. Her grandmother’s family hails from the Valdres Valley of Norway, where the Norwegian folk art of Rosemaling is rich in history and symbolism.
Rosemaling is known to have existed as far back as the early 1700s, and it may be an even older art form. Jan feels that contemporary artists must maintain its traditions, but her interpretations of the art make the pieces uniquely hers.
“My goal is to present this beautiful art to promote interest and to pass it on,” she says.
Jan has taken classes, both in Norway and here in the U.S., from Norwegian painters as well as American teachers. She says the many styles of Rosemaling are painted on wooden pieces, mostly utilitarian pieces, and she currently paints about 12 different styles of Rosemaling along with “nisse” (gnome) painting.
Jan has won awards at the Indiana State Fair, the Illinois Norsk Rosemaler’s Association, Sons of Norway, Stoughton Rosemaling Club, and Vesterheim Norwegian American Museum in Decorah, Iowa. She was juried in as an Indiana Artisan in 2011, and participates in the Indiana Artisan Marketplace each year.
Several of Jan’s Rosemaling art pieces have been published in The Decorative Painter magazine, PaintWorks magazine, Painting World magazine, and the Painting Friend magazine in Japan. In 2013, one of her published pieces was chosen to be on the membership card for the Society of Decorative Painters.
She teaches private Rosemaling lessons in her home studio in Thorntown, IN. Jan and her husband have owned and operated Turn of the Century Wood Products in Thorntown, IN, since 2002. They sell their unfinished wood products to decorative artists all over the world.
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