Ash and Beauty

Bush fires have ripped through the natural landscape over the past year causing devastation and destruction.

I wanted to create a piece that captured the barren and haunting looking aftermath as well as a glimmer of hope and potential.

Ash & Beauty combines soft brush strokes with heavy acrylics gently scraped across an empty landscape where nothing was left but bare tree trunks and ash. Light maroons and blues add to the atmosphere with the hint of yellow-cream sunlight rising up over the horizon.

Lose yourself in this piece.

Signed on front and back.
Ready to hang.
Black painted edges.

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Janet Gouteff is a self taught artist fascinated with colour and texture. Inspired by the rugged beauty of the West Australian coast and country, many of her works reflect the beauty in this sometimes harsh terrain with broad brush strokes and palette knife dabs and scrapings. Janet works primarily with acrylics and mixed media and loves it when the work jumps out of the canvas in 3-D ways.

Janet was a finalist in the recent City of Belmont Art Awards (2021 & 2022) and has displayed her work in various local exhibitions in Perth including a solo, pop-up exhibition in August (2021).

Janet works closely with the art community and offers workshops, classes and online events for budding to seasoned artists.