biography

Jane Bertram Miluski

As a child, Jane knew that she wanted to work in art. However, her career made a long detour when her father insisted she take a degree in math, physics or chemistry. After earning a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Brown University, she married and busied herself raising five children. After many years of volunteer work, her transition into the arts began with nineteen years of teaching music and dance at the School in Rose Valley. Meanwhile, Jane began to study with watercolor artists that she particularly admired, primary among whom was Nita Engle, AWS, of Marquette, Michigan.

Her traditional landscapes, expressing the sense of place through light, color and texture, usually explore water themes:  Michigan lakes, Scottish lochs, and the coasts of Ireland, Maine and Nova Scotia.  Her experimental watercolors, rich washes of pigment, are non-representational and suggest imagined landscapes or urban fantasies.

A signature member of both the Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Watercolor Societies, she was the first woman elected president of the Philadelphia Watercolor Society.  She has also served on the boards of the Rittenhouse Square Fine Arts Annual, the Delaware Valley Art League, the Artists’ Guild of Delaware County, and the Community Arts Center.

Jane Bertram Miluski is a teacher of watercolor at the Community Arts Center in Wallingford, PA. She has co-taught plein aire workshops in Tuscany, Scotland and Sicily, and has taken groups to Jamaica to paint on location. She also conducts workshops for groups in the tri-state area. Her work was featured in “American Artist” magazine in 2004.

Jane has had solos exhibits Swarthmore College, Hedgerow Theatre, and the Darlington Fine Arts Center. Her participation in group shows includes the Transparent Watercolor Society of America, Philadelphia Water Color Society, Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, the Rittenhouse Square Fine Arts Show, and the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Club., NYC