Day 6 in the Garden, 36"x36" acrylic + collage on canvas.This painting mingles abstract design with figures recalling Renaissance drawings in a surreal painting that alludes to the Garden of Eden. Click below for inquiries and artist-direct sale.

Memory's Shore, 16"x16" acrylic on canvas is an abstract monochomatic painting that suggests a mood of nostalgia, with images that seem to hover. Click below for inquiries and artist-direct sale.

Oceanic, 8"x16" acrylic on canvas SOLD but similar work can be commissioned. Click below for inquiries and artist-direct sale.

Involuted, 25.5"x20", acrylic and ink on Arches/Fabriano paper. This abstract work has a sense of form and depth, of objects nested within another shape. Stability and containment are suggested. Click here for inquiries and artist-direct sale.

Riding the Storm, 17"x24", acrylic and ink on Arches/Fabriano paper. A dynamic work with strong contrasts in design. It was inspired by being on a small boat in the midst of a storm. Rather than paint the boat and sea, the intent was abstractly to suggest the feel of the outside waves against the permeable shield of the boat. Click below for inquiries and artist-direct sales.

Affinities, 18.5"x13.5", acrylic and ink on Arches/Fabriano paper is an abstract minimalist design in which the weight of the vertical marks creates a mass counter-balanced by the separate but coherent mass of circular marks beside it. My paint-drawings are often spontaneous expressions whose intent becomes apparent (or not) as the marks are made, Click below for inquiries and artist-direct sale.

Book of Sighs 5, 27.5"x20", acrylic and ink on Arches/Fabriano paper. My paint-drawings are often spontaneous expressions whose intent becomes apparent (or not) as the marks are made. This, like other works in "The Book of Sighs" relies on thin lines that diffuse: my visual metaphor for a sigh. This one creates a gestural design that suggests to me a dancer. with flowing robes. Click below for inquiries and artist-direct sale.

Book of Sighs 3, 27.5"x 20", acrylic and ink on Arches/Fabriano paper. My paint-drawings are often spontaneous expressions whose intent becomes apparent (or not) as the marks are made. This, like other works in "The Book of Sighs" relies on thin lines that shift as a visual metaphor for sighs. Here, they are stick-like and more frayed than graceful, The resulting design suggests to me a stifled sigh in the process of letting go. Click below for inquiries and artist-direct sale.

Minoan, 18.5"x13.5" acrylic and ink on Arches/Fabriano paper. My paint-drawings are often spontaneous expressions whose intent becomes apparent (or not) as the marks are made. This abstract drawing with the impression of a bull's head emergent on top was Inspired by travels in Crete. Click below for inquiries and artist-direct sale.

Book of Incantations 4, 8"x10" ink on paper. I've made these small ink-paintings for years. They often are a spontaneous expressions whose intent becomes apparent (or not) as the marks are made. Like other ink-paintings in the Incantations set, marks made with a nib pen interact with drops of ink and water to create surprising shapes that invite closer look. They are like talismanic objects thrown together that magically form a visual incantation. Click below for inquiries and artist-direct sale.

Visual Incantations Video with music and narration by Janet Strayer Art

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Saturna Island, B.C.

Gestures and Marks mean everything when the visual intention is to express something intimated but not quite known.
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