Jean has been painting for over twenty years, balancing her strong teaching abilities, and writing with her continuing aspiration to convey her ideas in visual form.

Jean's traditional practice includes referential imagery of people, still life and landscape. The layering of a variety of media offer Jean an assortment of possibilities within her work; quality of edge, line and texture all play a role within her imagery. Although Pederson is well known for her mastery of watercolours, mixed media has become an important venue for her creative expression.

The portraits in her paintings are based on people who she has met or impacted her. These subjects in her paintings often reflect different walks of life as well as diverse cultural and religious backgrounds. We are hard pressed to find a period in time when the human figure wasn't represented. Finding a way to express the human figure in a language that reflects the twenty-first century is perhaps the greatest challenge in figurative work today.

Jean has work placed in the Royal Collection in Winsor England, and has been honored with numerous National and International awards over the years. In 2005 Jean was the first recipient of the Federation of Canadian Artists Early Achievement Award, granted for her many honors, awards, international writing to promote art education, and consistent, exceptional painting.

Jean Pederson has exhibited her work Internationally in London England, Stockholm Sweden, New York, United Nations, San Francisco, Mexico and across Canada.

She has completed a body of work for Public Exhibitions dealing with the changes that have occurred within the social fabric of Rural Canada. This body of work is explored outside Jean's traditional practices, encompassing fragments from the past and present. Parts of the family farm, old receipts, fragments of the homestead (pieces of linoleum, doors, moldings, shingles), and photographs were used in an attempt to tell the story of the ever-changing landscape and social fabric of the prairies.

This work is as eclectic as the people who made up the rural society. Jean has included paintings, collage (using the old documents to symbolize all that is left of the family farm), Polaroid transfers of old and new photographs, and installations using the pieces of the old house to tell this story. The fragment represents all that is left from 100 years of farming in my family.

Farm Fragments opened in 2005 and will travel to various Public Galleries over the next few years.

• Sponsored by Winsor and Newton
• American Watercolor Society (AWS Signature Member)
• Canadian Institute of Portrait Artists (CIPA Signature Member)
• Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour (C.S.P.W.C. Signature Member)
• Alberta Society of Artists (A.S.A. Signature Member)
• Federation of Canadian Artists (SFCA Signature Member)
• California Watercolor Association (CWA Signature Member)

• London England, travel study for works in the Royal Collection,
  National Portrait Gallery, and National Gallery, 2000
• New York, travel study for works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
  The Guggenheim Museum, The Museum of Modern art., 2003, 05, 06
• 1985, B.Ed. from the University of Calgary (Major in Fine Arts)
• 1983, B.P.E from the University of Calgary

• 2007 - Presidents Award - C.S.P.W.C. - Toronto, ON
• 2007 - M. Graham Award - N.W.W.S. International Exhibition - Seattle, WA
• 2006 - Daler Rowney Award - C.S.P.W.C. - Toronto, ON
• 2006 - Merit Award - T.W.S.A. International Exhibition - Elmhurst, IL
• 2006 - Honorable Mention - N.W.W.S. International Exhibition - Seattle, WA
• 2005 - Grand Prize - Painting on the Edge International Exhibition -Vancouver, BC
• 2005 - Early Achievement Award - Presented for the first time by the F.C.A - Vancouver
• 2005 - Finalist - The Artist's Magazine - Portraits - U.S.A.
• 2004 - Best Water Media of Show - CIPA Nation Exhibition - Masters Gallery - Calgary, AB
• 2004 - Finalist - The Artist's Magazine - Portraits - U.S.A.
• 2003 - Opus Award - Paintings on the Edge International Exhibition - Vancouver, BC
• 2003 - Finalist - Artist's Magazine - Portraits - U.S.A.
• 2003 - Silver Medal, Canadian Institute of Portrait Artists - Canada
• 2002 - Gold Medal, New York Adirondacks International Exhibition - U.S.A.
• 2002 - Honorable Mention - Artist's Magazine Competition - U.S.A.
• 2001 - A.W.S. - Silver Medal of Honor - U.S.A.
• 2001 - C.W.A. - Silver Medal - U.S.A.
• 2001 - Finalist - Artists Magazine - Portraits - U.S.A.
• 2000 - C.S.P.W.C. - S.J. Sloan Award - A Brush with History - Toronto, ON
• 2000 - C.S.P.W.C. - H. K. Holbein Award - Open Watercolour Exhibition - Toronto, ON
• 2000 - Watercolour West - National Watercolour Society Award U.S.A.
• 1999 - Honorable Mention - Artists' Magazine - Portraits - U.S.A.
• 1999 - The Evans Award - Vancouver, B.C.
• 1999 - 1st Place - Signature Show, Western Canadian Artists F.C.A. - Calgary, AB
• 1998 - 4th Place - Windsor and Newton International Watercolour Competition - U.S.A.

• The Royal Collection, London, England
• Covenant Real Estate, Alberta
• Fairchild Resources, Alberta
• Kinderhook Resources - Alberta
• Coe & Company International: Udderly Art for The Mustard Seed - Alberta
• A.G.R.A. Collection - Alberta
• Phillips Bros. - Alberta
• Diploma Collection, C.S.P.W.C. - Ontario
• Doris McCarthy - Ontario
• Agrium Collection - Alberta

• 2007 Birchwood Gallery, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
• 2005 Leighton Centre, Calgary, Alberta
• 2002 Birchwood Gallery, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
• 1998 Unisourse Gallery, Calgary, Alberta

• 2007 - International Invitational Water Media Exhibition, China
• 2007, 06, 03 - N.W.W.S. Exhibition, Artists Gallery, Seattle, WA
• 2006, 05, 01 - A.W.S. 134th International Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, N.Y., N.Y.
• 2006 - CIPA National Open Exhibition, Red Deer Museum, Red Deer
• 2006 - T.W.S.A. 30th International Exhibition, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
• 2005, 03, 02, 01, 00 - C.W.S. National Exhibition, Academy of Art University Gallery, San Francisco
• 2005, 04, 03 - Painting on the Edge, Federation Gallery, Vancouver
• 2004 - CIPA National Exhibition, Calgary
• 2004 - C.S.P.W.C. 80th Anniversary Traveling Exhibition
• 2002 - 2003 International Watercolour Exhibition, National Watercolour Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
• 2002 - Search for the Human Essence, Triangle Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
• 2001 - Royal Collection Exhibition, traveling exhibition: Canada House, London, England: O'Connor Gallery, Toronto, Ontario: Arts & Letters Club, Toronto, Ontario
• 2000 - A Brush With History: The first 75 Years, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario
• 2000 - Your World In The Year 2000, International Exhibition, Winsor and Newton, traveling exhibition: New York (United Nations): London, England: Stockholm, Sweden
• 1999 - 2000 Mexico/ Canadian Watercolour Exhibition, Mexico
• 1996 - 2005 The Alicat Gallery, Bragg Creek, Alberta
• 1996 - 2000 The Artnest Gallery, Calgary, Alberta

• Author of upcoming book 'Expressive Portraits: Creative Methods for Painting People' - Fall 2007
• Splash 10 - F & W Publications - 2007
• Magazin-Art - October - 2005
• Splash 9 - F & W Publications - 2006
• Splash 8 - F & W Publication - 2004
• The First Seventy Years - Historical Book A.S.A. - 2000
• Our World in the Year 2000 - Windsor and Newton
• Canada's Who's Who 2002, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07 Editions
• International Artist 2000, 01, 02, 04
• Watercolor Magic 2001, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06
• Artist's Magazine 1999, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07