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Jan was born and raised in Norman, Oklahoma.  She attended the University of Oklahoma and majored in Business Administration.  She is a member of Alpha Chi Omega Sorority, the Citizen Potawatomi Nation of Oklahoma and the San Ramon Arts Foundation.
 

Jan moved to California in 1969 and worked for Trans International Airlines (Transamerica Airlines) in the Accounting, Fleet Planning, and Data Processing Departments. 

Jan has taken art instruction from several local instructors, but most of her work has been self-taught. She has painted with acrylics, oils, watercolors, and soft pastels on canvas, paper, greeting cards, wood and rocks.  The subjects have included landscapes, still life, portraits of people and animals.  Her other interests include the welfare of animals.  Jan has combined this interest to focus on the love of animals, to paint pet portraits (and their people when requested) in soft pastels.  Jan uses soft pastels with velour paper, which gives a delicate and lifelike look to her paintings.  She takes pictures of dogs she encounters on walks and uses these photographs as the basis for her work on a particular breed.  She also accepts commissions to paint individual pets.

Jan has lived in San Ramon for twenty-two years and has been married to her husband, Gary, for thirty-six years.
 

Her business, Pet Art by Jan Zeigler, was started in 2003.  A newspaper article about her appeared in the Tri-Valley Herald, April 11, 2007.

Her paintings have been shown at the Alameda County Fair Fine Arts Exhibit for the past five years.  She received a Silver Award in 2007 and an Honorable Mention Rosette in 2003 and 2004.  She also received a First Place Pastel Award in 2005 and 2006 at the San Ramon Art Walk & Festival.

Jan’s work has also been shown at Comerica Bank in San Ramon, Studio 7 in Pleasanton, Danville Doggie Night, Three Dog Bakery, Just Dogs and the San Ramon Banner Project.

She has donated her art for fundraisers to Tri-Valley Animal Rescue, CASA, The Biletnikoff Foundation, and the Cocker Spaniel Rescue of New England.

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                         Thank you, Jan