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Outrageous Tweeter, 36"x36" acrylic on canvas, is a lively and bold abstract depiction of a huge bird on a tightrope who wins the ballgame in chaotic times.
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Party in Birdland 36"x48" acrylic + collage (fabric, paper) on canvas, is a festive tableau done in a naive-realistic style. It invites you to a gathering of people celebrating music, wings, and our human diversity.
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Mending the Torn Universe, 30"x24" acrylic on canvas, conveys a heart-felt wish for our socio-politically torn world to be fixed ... a wish materialized here with the hands of a celestial creation sewing together its torn threads.
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BirdWoman at Home, 30"x48" acrylic on canvas. BirdWoman is a wonderful character appearing in several paintings. She lives close to nature and loves to fly free. Click below for inquiries and artist-direct sale.
Four and Twenty, 36"x48" acrylic on canvas.. This highly stylized painting of birds flying freely off the grid is inspired by the "4 and 20 blackbirds" folk rhyme and especially by the need to be free of confinement.
Birdwoman character reappears in this 36"x48" acrylic painting of her sitting on a rooftop with birds aloft
Kite Flyers, acrylics, 36"x36" has SOLD but can inspire similar commissioned work-- Click below for inquiries
Poet and Jester, 30"x24" combines acrylic painting and collage in a mixed media work on wood. Imagination reigns in this visual story of two eternal boys and the dream-reality dichotomy.
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Good Day's Travel, 36"x36" acrylic on canvas presents a colorfully airy, whimsical day at sea for playful birds. Click below for inquiries and artist-direct sales
Crow's Legacy, 30"x30" acrylic on canvas is an impressionistically rendered painting. An allegory of good fortune found as a bird might find a bright berry in the haze. The red atmosphere just insisted, and I loved painting it. Click below for inquiries and artist-direct sales.
Crow's Fortune, 30"x36" acrylic on canvas is a companion to Crow's Legacy. An impressionistically rendered allegory of good fortune passed onward. The red atmosphere just insisted, and I loved painting it. Click below for inquiries and artist-direct sales.
Canada Goose Chase, 36"x48" acrylic on canvas. This large painting aligns realism and abstraction in a large, decoratively stylized work. I love the interplay of shapes and rendered form in this atmospheric depiction.
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Papageno, 36"x36" acrylic on canvas is a colorful imaginative painting inspired by the delightful folk in Mozart's Magic Flute opera. SOLD but can inspire similar commissioned work-- Click below for inquiries and artist-direct sales.
Ode to Flight, 30"x40", acrylic on canvas, presents a set of whimsical magical creatures who ceremoniously enact a ritual to hold planes aloft. Click below for inquiries and artist-direct sale.
DaVinci's Flying Machine, 30"x40" acrylic on canvas. The amazing mind of DaVinci is celebrated in this fanciful painting that imaginatively explores his concept by connecting Janet Strayer's images of DaVinci, birds, and wind currents with his inventive flying-machine drawings.
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Birds of a Different Feather, 36"x48"acrylic on canvas presents a dynamic array of personalized birds-- a fondly imaginative allegory inspired by life on Saturna Island, home to Janet Strayer Art. Click below for inquiries and artist-direct sales.
Flight Interrupted, 30"x36" acrylic on canvas has SOLD, but similarly dynamic, minimalist abstract works can be commissioned. Click below for inquiries.
Golden Birds, 27.5"x39" is a highly textured acrylic painting with gold leaf on wood. A story of a golden "outsider" bird whose artful tastes are scorned by the flock. Click below for inquiries and artist-direct sales.
Pegasus, 30"x36"acrylic on canvas. A dynamic expressionist rendering of the mythic flying horse . Click below for inquiries and artist-direct sales.
Riders of the Dawn, 20"x 16" mixed media on canvas. Decorative shapes and a calm mood rule in this semi-abstract composition suggesting winged creations. Click below for inquiries and artist-direct sales.
Solo Flight, 16"x20"acrylic on canvas. A single focus: the dynamic solo flight of an eagle. We are close enough to see the movement of wind and feather. Click below for inquiries and artist-direct sales.
Southern Sea, 19.5"x26" acrylic on paper bonded to wood, A soft abstract calmly reminiscent of seaside vistas in southern climes. Click below for inquiries and artist-direct sales.
Pas de Deux, 36"x48" acrylic on canvas, SOLD but similar work can be commissioned. Click below for inquiries.
Icarus, 36"x36" acrylic on canvas, SOLD but similar work can be commissioned. Click below for inquiries.
BirdCentral, mixed media on wood, ~36'x60' (with twig extensions), SOLD but can inspire similar commissioned work-- Click below for inquiries
"Wings" is a collection of artworks featuring birds, winged creatures, objects, and ideas that fly in reality or soar in imagination. Each work invites you to journey through a world in Janet Strayer Art where reality meets imagination. Each artwork is noted for its exceptional artistry and evocation of different moods and open-ended story. Experience the wonder and freedom embodied here and let your imagination take wing.
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Saturna Island, B.C.
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