Award winning artist Jan Lee Lumkin resides in Fallbrook, California.  She is an artist and poet, who has combined her talents in her recently published book called: A TIME BEYOND....

Her mediums are oil and acrylic.  Subjects include: Wildlife, Landscape, Still-life and Portraiture.

In 2005, Jan was invited to show her wildlife paintings at the Natural History Museum at Balboa Park, San Diego, CA.  Her painting called "PUZZLING", is a painting set in the rain-forests of Rwanda.  It shows the plight of the Mountain Gorills and their loss of habitat.  It was offered as a giclee print  #1 in a series of 650.  It sold to a well-known conservation patron of the National History Museum.  Also, Ed Zieraiski from the San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper, gave the following review, "Jan Lee Lumkin's "Puzzling" a painting of an african scene that stopped me and made me look".

Jan is now working with concerned groups to raise funds to save the rain-forests and it's inhabitants.  She is contributing a portion of her sales to foundations that are dedicated to saving all living things on the spectacular planet.

"As far back as I can remember, my passion has been art and poetry.  All things, animate and inanimate have a tale to tell.  My mind can supersede all rational thoughts and arrive at some fantastic conclusions formed in a place I like to call "My Nurturing Soul".  It is a comfortable place, lacking prejudice, where my creativity flows through the mysterious realm of  "I wonder" and "What if"?  Whether asleep or awake, I often find inspiration in my dreams.  I have found that in my, sometimes turbulent and glorious life, that the inner and outer universe is a very special space indeed.  Simply filled with endless possibilities.  Patient observation is my greatest tool.  At sunset, I watch gray tree branches turn into gold and various shades of orange, violet and blue, and I am ispired by the glory of nature's variations.  When I paint a portrait, I search behind the mask (the face) to find that inner beauty waiting for recognition".

                            PLEASE HELP SAVE OUR GREAT RAIN-FORESTS