About the Artist

Jan Walsh

I have been in love with photography my entire life.  It started as a young child when I found a little bit of money on the ground.  I took my friends to buy candy and picked up my first instant camera.  My subjects in that first camera were people, animals, landscapes and street photography. My formal training includes courses from Central Oregon Community College where I fell in love with darkroom.  I bought my first camera, the Nikon FE2, and shot 35mm for years.  I resisted the urge to move to a digital format, but I eventually gave away my darkroom equipment and made the leap. I've been shooting digital images for about 15 years now. I still own my Nikon FE2, but don't use it anymore.  My current cameras are the Nikon Df, and Nikon Z Mirrorless cameras. ​

My digital artwork was born out of isolation during the pandemic. I needed  to find new ways to be creative, so I began using my own photography to re-create famous art work into quirky, whimsical images. I've expanded that art form into creating portraits of famous people, superheroes and my own creations using my own photographs of animals as the subject. I work to attain a folk art feel with each image, so they are not intended to be proportionally accurate or photo realistic.  My art re-creation images do not contain AI or any part of the original art work.​​