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Janet Anderson - Hello Neighbour

Janet Anderson

Hello Neighbour

Painting / Oil

Original oil painting on gallery wrapped canvas


Size (H x W x D)
22" X 28" X 2"
SOLD

Born and raised in Ontario, Janet moved to British Columbia to attend university where she earned a Bachelor of Education.  She has been an art educator in many settings and has been consistently creating paintings since 2001.  Currently Janet’s works explore colour and depth of field, moving from crisp lines to blurred edges, from realism to abstraction.Janet has participated in solo and group exhibitions, in the lower mainland and in Saskatoon, Vancouver and Victoria.  Her works are held in local, national and international private collections.

I have a broad yet simple desire in my paintings:  to create something beautiful. It’s not that I want to ignore the ugliness of life, far from it, but I want my pieces to encourage environments of relief, release, and tenderness.  My intention is for my pieces to aid in transforming a house into a home, a board room into a table of open discussion, a facility into a space for community. Why flowers?  I have asked myself the question many times over the past number of years.  Maybe it’s because I find them infinitely beautiful:  startling in their colour and tenacity and extravagance.   A green shoot pushing up through the ground in spring, a seed head holding on by the roadside, or a brazen splash of pink peeking out around the green:   these are gifts offered to a deep part within me.  A part that sometimes I don’t even notice is needy until the gift is received. "Seen and Unseen" is a great description of my aesthetic, as I often paint the interplay between realism and semi-abstraction.  It also speaks to my subject choice as I strive to highlight beauty that is missed, such as a wildflower growing on the side of a fence, or last years vines behind a clematis.  In this time when the future feels largely 'unseen' it is such a gift to look and see all the beauty that surrounds us.