Janice Hathaway

About Janice Hathaway

Janice Hathaway was born St. Louis, Missouri in 1951, and lived in Alabama until the early 1980's. She began working as a Surrealist in 1973 when she first became a founding member of the Alabama Surrealist Group that originated in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and later continued in Birmingham, Alabama. In 1983 Janice moved to Mississippi and then Tennessee for teaching positions. She moved to Hawaii in 1988 where she continued to teach and work as a Surrealist until she moved back to the USA mainland in 2008 and settled in Williamsburg, Virginia. She often publishes and works with the Chicago Surrealist Group. A gallery of her work can be seen as the Images of Desire exhibit on the Surrealism in the United States Web site.

Janice Hathaway's work is meant to encourage reflection about the relationship between nature and culture, handwork and technology while being strongly influenced by coincidence, humor, feelings and desire. This work sustains her long-term interest in creating works of imaginary situations seeking the living moment.

Janice uses original photographic images of subjects in nature: plants, skies, ocean, water and a collection of miscellaneous objects which she digitally combines and prints. Many works are bas-relief or have a three-dimensional structure. This work sustains her long-term interest in creating two-dimensional and sculptural collage.

Janice Hathaway is an artist, educator and designer. She teaches Computer Arts at Thomas Nelson Community College since 2008. Prior to moving to Virginia, she lived in Hawai'i for twenty years and taught at Kapi'olani Community College in Honolulu, Hawai'i. Janice has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Printmaking and Photography, both from the University of Alabama.