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Travels with Pirandello, 27"x39"
This lively artwork, painted in acrylics over Venetian plaster on wood-edged board, presents a colourful and textured semi-abstract scene suggesting festivities in time gone by. Evoking architecture, gardens, and people that travel back and forward in space. Inspired by travels and readings in Tuscany.
The Sky IS Falling, 36"x36"
The Sky IS Falling, acrylic on canvas, a 36"x36" expressionist
mixed-media painting (acrylics and collage on canvas), features a bird's warning and a suggested city amidst dramatic climate change.
mixed-media painting (acrylics and collage on canvas), features a bird's warning and a suggested city amidst dramatic climate change.
Mending the Torn Universe, 30"x24"
Mending the Torn Universe, 30"x24" acrylic painting on canvas, takes a cosmic view of contemporary times. A celestial woman is shown sewing together the torn threads of the universe. The story conveys a heartfelt wish for our socio-politically torn world to be fixed -- a wish materialized here by a woman's humble act of sewing together what has been ripped apart and a metaphor for feminine impact .
Figuring Out the Universe, 36"x40" acrylic on canvas SOLD but similar work can
Figuring Out the Universe, 36"x40" acrylic on canvas SOLD but similar work can be commissioned. This original painting is an inventive portrayal of some idiosyncratic references to the "real" world set in an imagined atmosphere of shifting color fields. Click below for inquiries and artist-direct sale
Kite Fliers, 36"x36"
Kite Fliers, 36'x36" acrylic on canvas, conveys an atmospheric imaginative landscape with small figurative elements. SOLD butt similar work can be commissioned. Inquire below
Good Day's Travel, 36"x36"
Good Day's Travel, 36"x36, acrylic on canvas , is a fanciful :painting of playfully imagined birds navigating a pastel-colored sea. Click below for inquiries and artist-direct sale.
Icarus, 36"x36"
Icarus , 36"x36" a semi-abstract acrylic painting, has SOLD but similar work can be commissioned below. This work honors the mythic young man whose invented wings led him to fly close to the sun. Click below for inquiries and artist-direct sale.
Penelope, 36"x36"
Penelope, 36"x36"acrylic on canvas painting, is a semi-abstract composition in the style of a wall-hanging. It recalls Penelope, the wily weaver, celebrated in the Iliad for her cleverness, craft, and loyalty to spouse Odysseus, keeping an entire kingdom intact while he wandered.
Minotaur, 36"x36"
Minotaur, 36"x36"acrylic on canvas, confronts us with this legendary man-beast. His gaze is familiar and questioning in this work, in contrast to the abhorrence engendered in myth. Click below for inquiries
Persephone, 36"x36"
Persephone, 36"x36"
acrylic on canvas:This semi-abstract impressionistic painting suggests the yearly journey of the mythic queen of the underworld. Luminous colour conveys the land blooming above yet also merging with the shadowy underworld . Click below for inquiries and artist-direct sale
acrylic on canvas:This semi-abstract impressionistic painting suggests the yearly journey of the mythic queen of the underworld. Luminous colour conveys the land blooming above yet also merging with the shadowy underworld . Click below for inquiries and artist-direct sale
Prometheus, 36"x36"
Prometheus, 36"x36" acrylic on canvas, painted in the boldly representational "Pop" style of adventure comics. It depicts the mythic god as he delivers his stolen gift of fire to humans. Beside him flies the eagle who will exact punishment for his act of humanity. Click link below for inquiries and artist-direct sales.
Time-Travel Series: Dramatic and imaginative paintings inspired by notions of intuitive time and space. Each piece evokes mythic imagery, inviting you to embark on journeys to fantastic sights seen or imagined. Experience the magic in Janet Strayer Art that challenges the boundaries of reality and ignites your imagination.
Click at right to see the series. Click on a painting for information about it.
Saturna Island, B.C.
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