Jane Branscomb has been a longstanding member of the Village Painters and participant in the Birmingham arts community. As a youth, she took WPA classes in Nashville and Richmond and later studied with muralist and pastel painter, Bell Worsham. She subsequently took courses at the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Colorado. In Village Painters, her studies have continued with Raymond McMahon of Birmingham-Southern College and Al Sella of the University of Alabama.

After majoring in art history at Randolph-Macon Women’s College, Jane did art education work at the Valentine Museum of Richmond and later at the Birmingham Museum of Art. She is a past officer of the Water Color Society of Alabama and the Birmingham Art Association.

Among her volunteer activities have been “quick sketch” pastels of children which led to commissions of larger work. These impressionist pastel portraits and expressionist acrylic and mixed media landscapes can be found in various private and public collections in Virginia and locally.