Jan's art career started as a profesional fashion designer, with a design degree from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. In 1985 she left the corporate world to become a full-time artist. She has used her love of form, line and color to express herself in pastels, and received Signature status from the Pastel Society of the West Coast in 1987.

Jan then transferred her love of line and form to cast paper sculpture, with its purity of color in a three dimensional form. She captures grace, movement, and beauty with her amazing technique. These sculptures are hand made by Jan, starting with creating the base model, mold making, paper fabrication, casting, and assembling the completed piece. Cast Paper Sculptures are produced in a limited edition of three to twenty pieces, depending on size and casting conditions. Each comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

Jan has participated, and sold, in the New York City Medallic Arts and Sculpture Show at the well known Pen & Brush Club for the last five years. With the introduction of gourd pyrography to her repertoire, Jan feels she has come full circle. She relishes the combination of creating an object of art with Nature's own invention: gourds. Jan looks for the spirit of the gourd, and then enhances it with carving, dyeing and wood burning, putting her originality into the gourd.

In November 2007, the maple leaf gourd placed second in the sculpture category at the Nevada Days show in Carson City. Jan's work is in private collections in Connecticut, California, Tennessee, Ohio, Arizona, New York, South Carolina, Maine and Nevada.