Janet Kruskamp Art

Since 1968 Janet Kruskamp has been a resident of Los Gatos, California. Her father once joked that she was born with a paint brush in one hand and crayons in the other. This is because her artistic talents surfaced very early in life. By the age of 2 she was already a creative artist drawing many Disney characters including the Planters' Peanut Man. Today, she’s a painter of American scenes in romantic-realist style. Janet known for history, rural scene, regionalism, printmaking and child figure painting. Her art shows rural and urban lifestyles, including "An Artist in Search of America," a major collection of work that she completed in 1976 to coincide with the American Bicentennial. Together with her husband Janet traveled by car over 30,000 miles across the United States to sketch and study American life. Janet has been earning applause for her artistic talents since she was a child. Her style combines both realistic and romantic aspects. She paints charming images of objects and ordinary scenes to reveal their underlying beauty. The scenes from her American studies have been exhibited in many shows in France and the U.S.A., including exhibits at De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, the Long Beach Museum of Art, C.A., and the Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara. Janet is renowned for her ability to capture the essence of the many diverse subjects she creates. She’s also known for her versatility and keenness to detail. She’s an internationally recognized artist who is licensed and published worldwide by Bentley Licensing Group. The framed Janet Kruskamp art are also distributed worldwide.