The Art of Janis Galbraith Fitch

      People often ask me why I paint cows. 

I didn't  see them while growing up in Teaneck, New Jersey or while vacationing in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.  It wasn't until I moved to Southeastern Pennsylvania that I truly fell in love with cows.

  One day, while driving through beautiful Lancaster County, I came upon a field of Holstein cows.  I got out of the car and stood by the fence, watching them as they slowly meandered over to me.  They lined up in a beautiful black and white row and I was hooked.  Something about them struck a chord in me and I've been painting them ever since. 

     I especially enjoy placing cows in my beach paintings, probably because of the way the black and white (or brown and white) of their fur looks against the colors of the landscape.  I paint different types of cows, but the Holstein is my favorite.