Jan Swanson is a graduate of Clemson University and a native of Asheville, NC. She is the former owner of the Bus Stop Gallery in Columbia where she held 11 art shows in four years and represented more than 200 artists from North and South Carolina, Georgia, California, New York, Alabama and several other states. 

 

   A self-taught artist working in oils, she has taken drawing and painting classes at the University of South Carolina, Columbia College, Anderson Ranch, Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts and Penland School of Arts & Crafts. Jan is represented by Camellia Art Gallery in Hilton Head Island, SC.

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