Artist Profile Jane Lawton Baldridge
Jane Lawton Baldridge, Balaena Revisited, 2025, Acrylic on canvas, 67″ x 78″ x 3″ (1702 mm x 1981 mm x 76 mm).
Lawton Baldridge’s emotive, atmospheric strokes transcend traditional seascape to relay oceanic magnitude as an immersive, felt encounter.
Artist Statement
Balaena Revisited was inspired by a boat delivery from Long Beach, CA, up to San Francisco. The magnitude of the Pacific Ocean and the waves emanating from Asia and the local swells on top are humbling. The magnificence of the marine animals living in the Pacific is breathtaking. I have sailed extensively in the Atlantic, Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and many other bodies of water, but none present like the Pacific and those that live in it. My work is about the experience. Many artists paint seascapes, but I want you to feel what I felt.
Artist Biography
Jane is a Signature member of the American Society of Marine Artists and the National Association of Women Artists. Her passion is creating artworks about her lifelong love affair with water.
In 2025, she was included in the 42nd Schaefer International Marine Art Exhibition, The Mariner Gallery, Newport, RI, the 31st Annual Maritime Art Exhibition, Coos Art Museum in Coos Bay, OR, and The Women’s Show, at the Bailey Art Gallery, Hobe Sound, FL. Recent solo exhibits include Oceana Phenomena at the Cornell Art Museum, Delray Beach (2024), FL.; Navigation Oceana, Lake Worth, FL (2023); Oceana Phenomena in both the Annapolis Maritime Museum, Annapolis, MD and The Studios of Key West, Key West FL (2022), and in 2021 at the Elliott Museum: Portfolios – A Sea Story Girl. She received of a Florida DOS 2023/2024 Individual Artist Specific Cultural grant, as well as participated in The 41st Schaefer International Marine Art Exhibition, The Sailing Museum, Newport, RI, 19th Annual National Exhibition of Marine Artists, Albany Institute of Art & History and Minnesota Maritime Art Museum, World of Water at The Cornell Museum, Delray Beach, FL, 2 artist exhibit Emerge Yourself: Art with Purpose, Lake Worth, FL, Coos Art Museum’s 28th Maritime Art Exhibition, Coos Bay, Oregon and Sensations at the Museum of Arts & Sciences, Daytona Beach, FL.
She attended the California Institute of the Arts and the Alfred G. Glassel Museum School.