About
I am a sea level girl...
Most of my memories revolve around the coast or the deep ocean blue. Sailing on it, submerged in its lusty turquoise embrace or at the very least staring at it yearning to feel, smell and taste it. Possibly these feelings consume me because we evolved from creatures that crawled out of the ocean and now, I want to go back. Or maybe, on the water is the only place I feel at peace, at home, content.
My paintings are stories about my life on the water. Perfect days spent scudding along on the wavelets that reflect diamonds or bashing headlong into waves trying to survive the storm. I am grateful to have an unusual history of waterborne adventures. I want to share my stories and experiences with the audience.
Join me on my journey, reflect in my recap; most importantly learn to breath deep the salt air.
bio
Jane Lawton Baldridge, lives and works in Stuart, Florida and is a Signature member of both the American Society of Marine Artists and the National Association of Women Artists. Her passion is creating artworks about her life-long love affair with water.
In 2026 she exhibited in The Palm Beach Show, she maintains a gallery space at Palm Beach Art, Antiques & Design Showroom. In 2026 so far, she has shown in, in NAWAFL’s Natures Palette, Naples Botanical Garden, Naples.Everglow, Florida Artist Group Symposium at Court House Cultural Center, Stuart, FL.
In 2025 she was selected for the 42nd Schaefer International Marine Art Exhibition, The Mariner Gallery, Coos Art Museum’s 31st Maritime Art Exhibition, a 3-women exhibition, The Women’s Show, at the Bailey Art Gallery, Hobe Sound, FL. She has had recent solo exhibits Oceana Phenomena at the Cornell Art Museum in Delray Beach(2024), FL.; Navigation Oceana, in Lake Worth, FL(2023); Oceana Phenomena in the Annapolis Maritime Museum, Annapolis, MD and The Studios of Key West, Key West FL(both in 2022), and in 2021 at the Elliott Museum: Portfolios –, A Sea Story Girl.
Her film Wisdom of the Waves is an official selection in 34 International Film Festivals and has garnered 13 awards and nine honorable mentions.
She attended California Institute of the Arts and the Alfred G. Glassel Museum School.
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recent
Awards/ Honors/ Grants:
2025 Venü Magazine Merit Award Winner, South Florida
SeaGlass Awards, Florida Design Magazine
First Place Summer Salon, Palm Room Art Gallery, Stuart, FL
Second Place Fall Into Art, Palm Room Art Gallery, Stuart, FL
Honorable Mention, Water #8, Teravarna Online Exhibition
2024 Arts & Culture Sage Award, Stuart, FL
International Academy Arthouse Fest, Inspirational Film Winner
Bibliography:
2026 Florida's Astute Maritime Artist, Executive Global Magazine
2026 Sea Stories and the Return to Origin, Art Miami Magazine
2026 Jane Lawton Baldridge Language of the Sea, American Society of Marine Artists Marine Art
Journal,
2025 An Inspired Chat with Jane Baldridge VoyageMIA, December 10, 2025
2024 Sea Chronicles and a Flood Fortold, Florida Weekly Palm Beach Ed., August 8, Gretel Sariemto
2024 Oceana Phenomena, The Arts Paper, August, Lucy Lazaroney
2024 Cornell Art Museum Showcases Sea Captains Artworks, The Boca Tribune, May 13-30
2023 Meet Jane Baldridge, Canvas Rebel Magazine, October 19th
Selected Solo Shows:
2024 Oceana Phenomena: Sea Stories, Sea Level Chronicles and Wisdom of the Waves, Cornell Art Museum, Delray Beach, Florida
2023 Navigation Oceana, Palm Beach Design Showroom, Lake Worth, FL;
2022 The South Florida Oceana Phenomena – Sea Level Stories, Sanger and Zabar Project Galleries at The Studios of Key West, Key West, Florida
2022 Chesapeake Bay edition of Oceana Phenomena – Sea Level Stories, Annapolis Maritime Museum, Annapolis Maryland
2021 Portfolios: Jane Lawton Baldridge, A Sea Story Girl, Elliott Museum (June-October 31st),
curated by Alicia Weber, Hutchinson Island, FL
Selected Group Shows
2026
Tropical Temptations Palm Room Art Gallery, Stuart, FL
Spring Forward, Palm Room Art Gallery, Stuart, FL
Natures Palette, Naples Botanical Garden, Naples, FL
NAWAFL Members Showcase, Herrig Center for the Arts, Bradenton, FL
Everglow, Florida Artist Group Symposium at Court House Cultural Center, Stuart, FL
Members Only show, APBC, Helen Salzberg Gallery, Palm Beach Gardens, FL
The Palm Beach Show, Palm Beach Convention Center, Palm Beach FL
Kaleidoscope, Palm Room Art Gallery, Stuart, FL
NAWAFL: A Journey Through My Imagination, The Morean Arts Center Saint Petersburg, FL
2025 Context, Steidel Contemporary, Miami Art Week, FL
The 42nd Schaefer International Marine Art Exhibition, Mariner Gallery, Newport, RI
Timeless Martin: A Centennial Celebration, 4th Annual Members Showcase MartinArts, Stuart
31st Maritime Art Exhibition, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, Oregon
NAWA’s 136th Annual Signature Members Exhibition, Leonovich Gallery, NYC
Summer Salon & Small2, Palm Room Art Gallery, Stuart, FL
The Palm Beach Show, Palm Beach Convention Center, Palm Beach FL
Tropical Temptations, Palm Room Art Gallery, Stuart, FL
Kaleidoscope, Palm Room Art Gallery, Stuart, FL
Skins, NAWAFL Annual Member Showcase, Gallery 21, Wilton Manors, FL
Martin County Open Studio Tour, Court House Cultural Center, Stuart, FL
The Women’s Show, Bailey Art Gallery, Hobe Sound FL
Big & Bold, APBC Stuart, FL
practice
My practice focuses on abstract seascape paintings called sea stories; and the sea level stories are 3-dimensional human forms, covered in recycled charts specific to areas at risk of inundation, and painted to show the water rising up their bodies. My work about water is my passion. It is the culmination of an unusual life spent revering the oceana.