Artist Statement

Janet’s practice operates within the field of abstract painting using bold colour.  Texture and mark marking are important to the practice but a love of colour, unites it.

Her pieces of work often include clues to the themes undertaken and are either embedded or stamped in. Items incorporated have included fabric, papers, ribbons, string, shoelaces, sawdust, shavings and flowers, leaves and mud etc, depending on the focus of the piece. The mediums used in the work too can vary from acrylic paint and inks to graphite and watercolour pencils or water-based crayon as well as oil paint and different gels.

The work ranges from very large to tiny sized pieces. Sometimes the shape and form of the work also varies; she has rolled paint onto 200cm long plastic ventilation tubes and on to lengths of silk (up to 11m long), and has painted onto household bricks, household fabric and loose canvas, found wood, or rolls of paper, as well as the more traditional box canvas and artist’s paper. The physicality of the making is fundamental to the practice.

Within the practice there is a common drive to seek contrast.  Much of the work embraces aspects of chance/chaos, tests ideas around colour theory, and attempts to gently push boundaries in the way paint is applied or indeed scraped off.

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