Born in upstate New York, Jean Grastorf is a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology. She has applied her skills to paintings of the beautiful rural countryside and small villages where she grew up. Now a resident of Florida, Jean works with the demanding medium of transparent watercolor to capture the luminous light falling on tropical foliage and water.
Jean has been awarded Signature Memberships in several art societies, including the American Watercolor Society and the National Watercolor Society. She has been featured in many publications and has received awards from art exhibitions across the United States. Included among these are awards from the American Watercolor Society, the National Watercolor Society, the Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors, the Midwest Watercolor Society, the Montana Watercolor Society, the Southern Watercolor Society, the Florida Watercolor Society, Watercolor West, and others.
Jean was a member of the Board of Directors of The American Watercolor Society from 2000-2002 and Chairman of the Jury of Awards for the 2002 Exhibition. She also served on the Jury of Selection for the 2005 Annual Exhibition. Other jurying was done for the Baltimore Watercolor Society (2005) and the Kansas Watercolor Society (2005). The Watercolor Society of North Carolina (2005), Rhode Island Watercolor Society (2006), Western Colorado Watercolor Society (2006), and Arizona Watercolor Association (2006) have also retained Jean as their juror.
Her work is regularly shown in galleries, and is owned by major corporate and museum collections. A popular teacher, she conducts workshops across the United States and overseas and is frequently retained as a juror of watercolor competitions. |
