Born in 1958, Jan Gauthier is a native Californian and a Graduate of San Francisco State University. Gauthier looks to her immediate surroundings in West Marin County for her subject matter, photographing floral still life and landscapes.  She achieves a unique atmosphere in her work by hand coloring traditional silver gelatin prints with oil based pigments, imbuing the black and white images with warm umber and sienna tones and adding subtle texture to the surface.

Jan was the first female graduate of the photojournalism department at San Francisco State University.  She has been the recipient of the Greg Robinson Scholarship for photography and received the Resident Artist Grant from the Morris Graves Foundation in Northern California for Fall 2003. She lives and works in Marin County with her husband, landscape painter John McCormick and their two sons.