Jann Lawrence Pollard is a Signature Member of the National Watercolor Society, Southern Watercolor Society, and California Watercolor Society. She has a B.F.A. degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and studied under well-known artists. Her work was accepted into the American Impressionist Society’s juried exhibition and Southern Watercolor Society, winning the Winsor Newton Merchandise Award in 2016. Jann joined the Mecklenburg Chapter, NSDAR, in 2016 and won First Prize in watercolor in the DAR National American Heritage Contest in 2017, awarded at Continental Congress in Washington, DC; Third Prize in Oil in 2019, and Third Prize in Watercolor in 2021. Her work was accepted into the Salon watercolor exhibition at the Grand Palais, Paris, France in 2019.

Pollard is co-author with Jerry Little of the book, Creative Computer Tools for Artists, Watson Guptill Publications, 2001; featured in articles in International Artist magazine and Watercolor magazine, 2012. She was the cover artist for the Karen Brown travel books series for more than 15 years, painting cover images yearly for the 17 books. Pollard completed several paintings for Princess Cruises and Duke University Cancer Center purchased five of her paintings for their new cancer building (https://patientexperience.duke.edu/arts-and-health/). Jann was a popular plein-air teacher in workshops in Europe, Mexico, and the United States and has recently retired from teaching to allow more time for painting. Her extensive, more than 1600 works, are in private and corporate collections, internationally. Jann and her husband, Gene, reside in Charlotte, NC.