Jan Rastall

Jan has been drawing in her travel journals since 1981 when she hitch-hiked across New Zealand’s North and South Islands to backpack through most of its National Parks. In the summer of 2022, she thru-hiked the 486-mile Colorado Trail, in forty-one days. She carried a sketchbook, pens, and watercolors to record her experience in daily entries. Jan lived most of her life in Colorado before re-locating to Moab in 2021 to live near her grandson.

Show Statement: My work is about reverence and joy – in the mystery and awe of life; in the process of drawing and painting; in each new day and the promise it holds. I was raised with a strong work ethic. Being creative is the way I connect with a Greater Perspective. It roots me in the present. I travel into wild, undeveloped places to be surrounded by the beauty of the natural world.