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Jeanne Lydon:
Jeanne Lydon was born in the small town of San Carlos, California. She started painting as soon as she could hold a paintbrush. By the age of six her first lessons began at the piano. The same teacher began lessons of drawing and by the age of ten her first structured classical oil painting lessons began. She began painting classical landscapes on canvas from photographs and magazine ads.
Jeanne spent five years studying museums in New York and France, then attended the Academy of Art College to continue to explore her interest in painting. In 1999 she graduated from the California College of Arts and Crafts. Since then, she has explored a variety of artists while interning at the Hanson Gallery in San Francisco and Babilonia 1808 in Berkeley and has spent time teaching painting and drawing at the Veterans Administration Homeless Shelter in San Francisco as well. Jeanne has helped open and curate Door.7. Gallery with Ivan Blackshear.
Jeanne currently lives in Oakland, California, where she paints in her studio apartment. Inspired by stories told by those she has taught and those who taught her, she writes short stories on a manual typewriter. She paints in acrylic, ink, watercolor and oil and sketches in charcoal and pencil. Jeanne is represented by Hang in San Francisco.
For more information please visit www.hangart.com
