San Pedro Arts, Culture & Entertainment District News

Jan Govaerts

Jan Govaerts, a local San Pedran, has always been infatuated with the wonders of art. However, art often took a back seat while she raise a family and worked for the county for 22 years. After retiring, she immediately dove back into her true passion. Jan began making a name for herself as a painter who capture the beauty of the nature surrounding her. She then began to incorporating her long time love for music by making ceramic drums which began to pave her way to manly expressing herself mainly through the art of ceramics. Josef Woodard of the Los Angeles Times says,"the figurative presence almost instinctively seizes our eye and builds up energy and empathy that transcend the abstract element. Such is the power of a discernible ‘human presence’ in art. The act of ‘reading’ figures in paintings becomes a part of the art’s message.” At her 4 Street studio, The Loft, you can often find Govaerts with clay in her hand, conveying her spiritual interpretations of the majestic beauty of nature.