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Animal Heaven 18"x24"
Animal Heaven, 18"x24" mixed media painting, mingles layers of free-flowing paint with the artist's drawing of animals and an archangel (from Michelangelo) .
Lady Cranach Goes Modern, 24"x24"
Time travels as art comments upon art in this refined portrait of Lady Cranach (homage) who wears both Renaissance and modern dress as she calmly enjoys her modernist setting .
Lady Cranach Goes Modern portrait shown in a gold frame in a home
An example of what this painting might look like if framed and at home
Postcards from Pirandello, 27"x39" SOLD but similar work can be commissioned.
This lively artwork, painted in acrylics over Venetian plaster on wood-edged board, presents a colourfully textured semi-abstract scene suggesting festivities in times gone by. Inspired by travels in Tuscany. SOLD but similar work may be commissioned.
The Sky IS Falling, 36"x36"
The Sky IS Falling, acrylic on canvas, a 36"x36" expressionist
mixed-media painting (acrylics and collage on canvas), features a bird's warning and a suggested city amidst dramatic climate change.
mixed-media painting (acrylics and collage on canvas), features a bird's warning and a suggested city amidst dramatic climate change.
Figuring Out the Universe, 36"x40" SOLD but similar work can be commissioned
Figuring Out the Universe, 36"x40" acrylic on canvas, is an atmospheric painting with idiosyncratic references to the "real" world set in shifting color fields. SOLD but similar work can be commissioned.
Mending the Torn Universe, 30"x24", SOlD but similar work can be commissioned
Mending the Torn Universe, 30"x24" acrylic painting on canvas, takes a cosmic view of contemporary times. A celestial woman is shown sewing together the torn threads of the universe. The story conveys a heartfelt wish for our socio-politically torn world to be fixed -- a wish materialized here by a woman's humble act of sewing together what has been ripped apart and a metaphor for feminine impact .
Icarus, 36"x36" , SOLD
Icarus , 36"x36" is an abstract acrylic painting that honors the mythic young man who flew his invented wings close to the sun.. It has been SOLD but similar work can be commissioned .
Penelope, 36"x36"
Penelope, 36"x36"acrylic on canvas painting, is a semi-abstract composition in the style of a wall-hanging. It recalls Penelope, the wily weaver, celebrated in the Odyssey. for her cleverness, craft, and loyalty to wandering spouse Odysseus,.
Persephone, 36"x36"
Persephone, 36"x36"
acrylic on canvas: is a semi-abstract impressionistic painting suggesting the yearly journey of the mythic queen of the underworld. Luminous colour conveys the land blooming above merging with the shadowy underworld below it .
acrylic on canvas: is a semi-abstract impressionistic painting suggesting the yearly journey of the mythic queen of the underworld. Luminous colour conveys the land blooming above merging with the shadowy underworld below it .
Minotaur, 36"x36"
Minotaur, the legendary man-bull of mythic lore, confronts us in this 36"x36"acrylic painting on canvas. But his gaze here is familiar and questioning irather than abhorrent as in the ancient myth. Perhaps the human-beast acts as a mirror?
Prometheus, 36"x36"
Prometheus, 36"x36" acrylic on canvas, is painted in the boldly representational "Pop" style of adventure comics. It depicts this ancient Greek god as he delivers the forbidden gift of fire to humans. Beside him flies the eagle who will exact punishment for his sacrificial gift to humanity.
TIME TRAVEL: Dramatic and imaginative paintings that invite you into a fluid chronology that combines ancient and modern, real and imagined. Experience the magic in Janet Strayer's art that challenges reality's boundaries and ignites your imagination.
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Saturna Island, B.C.
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