Alive

Painted in professional polymer acrylic on wonderful quality stretched canvas with an oak frame made by a terrific local canvas and framing business.
I wanted to create an artwork that is uplifting and joyful. My elderly mother-in-law loved it when she saw it and told me it looks "so alive". I used her exclamation as the name.
As with most of my abstract paintings I start with a feeling and see where the painting takes me. It's always intriguing what comes forth and what the painting tells me it needs. It's quite intuitive work.

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Originally from Sydney, Jan has been a Fremantle-based artist for 20 years, learning from several Perth artists along the way. Jan is also a naturopathic nutritionist finding her art practice the perfect foil to her busy health practice. Her painting style varies from abstract to a more traditional style and she uses acrylics, oils, pastels, pencils and pens. Jan finds inspiration from the coast near her home and from her travels within Australia and overseas.

Jan says, “All the aspects of nature can bring about a feeling of pure joy and wonder for me - from the colour and form of exquisite flowers to the power in storm clouds over the ocean, or the rugged texture of cliffs and gorges. I love the beauty in nature in all its forms and my passion is to record this in some way to inspire others. Painting is very therapeutic as I allow the creative process to guide the paintbrush and palette knife and I lose myself in the memories of where I have been and the feelings I experienced in that place that I wish to pass on to others through my work.