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Spirited Sea, 36x36" original acrylic painting on canvas, evokes an energetic seascape with the ocean in high spirits playing upon a rocky coastline. Colored lights shine on the moving waters. Click below for inquiries, commissions, or canvas prints.
Eye of the Wave, 20"x36", original acrylic abstract painting on canvas , captures the dramatic moment when a wave turns, creating a gorgeously sinuous pattern and cloud of blues.Click below for inquiries, commissions, or canvas prints.
Rocky Shore, 36"x36, an original acrylic painting of a rock-bound shoreline enclosing exciting changes in light and mood as the sea swirls and slides around it. Click below for inquiries, commissions, or canvas prints.
Solitude, 24"x30", an original acrylic painting on canvas, invites us onto a tranquil shoreline where a solitary, weather-worn tree trunk comfortably nestles into the sandy beach. Soft, muted colours and delicate linework create impressions of a calm and lasting mood. Click below for inquiries, commissions, or canvas prints.
Sea Life, 24"x24", an original acrylic abstract painting, imagines the intricate forms living in the sea. Inspired by many walks along and the sea surrounding the artist's island studio.Click below for inquiries, commissions, or canvas prints.
The Rock Family, , 24"x30" original acrylic painting on canvas, is inspired by a landscape near the artist's island home. A spot where calm waters are bordered by an impressive outcrop of stalwart rocks that seem to have abided there forever. Click below for inquiries, commissions, or canvas prints.
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Golden Meadow, 24"x30" original acrylic painting on canvas, invites you to a enchanting meadow with trees and flowers nestled among protective golden mountains, a gentle pleasure. Click below for inquiries, commissions, or canvas prints.
Earthbound, 40"x30" original acrylic painting on canvas, is an abstract landscape with texture and movement suggesting light and changing colour on the many shapes falling upon and nestled in the earth. Click below for inquiries, commissions, or canvas prints.
MarshMist 36"x48",an original abstract acrylic painting, evokes a marsh setting with rocks and reeds glinting in the surrounding mists.
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Hillside, 12"x24", an original acrylic painting on canvas is a small evocative landscape that invites repeated close scrutiny for its surprising intricacy, where subtly flowing colours and textures merge seamlessly. to create this harmonious artwork.
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AutumnTree 24x30" original artwork SOLD. Click below for inquiries, commissions, or canvas prints.
Forming, 24"x18, original acrylic painting on paper bonded to wood, presents an imaginative landscape that combines brushwork and drawing to convey impressions of land being shaped by softly moving earth and winds. Click below for inquiries, commissions, or canvas prints.
Spume, 20"x16", original acrylic painting on canvas, captures the exuberant force of a wave crashing upon a rocky land bluff. Click below for inquiries, commissions, or canvas prints.
Ice Sea, 16"x20 original painting SOLD. Click below for inquiries, commissions, or canvas prints."
Grow Green a subtly coloured original diptych in green-grays (12"x36" each panel) suggests a wild field of grasses and blooms. Minimal brushstrokes, poured colours and flicks of thrown paint create movement, depth, and texture. Click below for inquiries, commissions, or canvas prints.
The Path, 30'x40"original acrylic painting SOLD. Click below for inquiries.
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Lowlands, 12"x16" original acrylic painting on paper SOLD. Click below for inquiries, commissions, or canvas prints.
Golden Hour, 12"x16", original acrylic painting on paper recalls the peace of this gentle field beside still waters as the light settles into evening. Click below for inquiries, commissions, or canvas prints.
City, 12"x16", original acrylic painting on paper -- a small semi-abstract painting suggesting a city bordering upon the sea. Inspired by several seaside cities, including Vancouver, BC. Click below for inquiries, commissions, or canvas prints.
"Marina," a 30x24" original acrylic painting on canvas by captures vibrant maritime life through bold abstract forms suggesting sea-worthy vessels. Bring the energy of an ocean voyage into your space
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Land Parcel,s, 24"x30,original abstract acrylic painting on canvas presents unique shapes and harmonious contrasting blues and yellows to suggest land as "parcels" in the sea.
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Fantastic Garden, 24"x30", original acrylic painting on canvas , immerses us in nature's ,floral beauty. A wonderful burst of blooms in an abundant garden of colours, textures, and brushstroke artistry. Inspired by the artist's lush flower garden and the vibrancy of Saturna Island. Click below for inquiries, commissions, or canvas prints.
Renewing Earth original painting SOLD. Click below for inquiries, commissions, or canvas prints.
The Firmament, original 30"x36" painting SOLD. Click below for inquiries, commissions, or canvas prints.
Waves, 24"x24" original acrylic painting on canvas, glimpses a moment in the life of wave with a spar of water caught bursting upward. Click below for inquiries.
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LAND/SEA: These naturalistic and abstract paintings evoke the vistas of land and sea as experienced internally. They aim to capture, for an instant, the moving forces of nature in bold and colourful textured paintings as well as in more subtle moments of quiet design. Enter and be inspired by a world in Janet Strayer Art that merges external nature and internal experience with unique artistry, mood, and engagement. Click at right to see the series Then.Click on a painting within the series for information about it.
Saturna Island, B.C.
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