Janet Anderson: Seen and Unseen
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The Gallery at Mattick's Farm 109-5325 Cordova Bay Rd, Victoria, British Columbia V8Y 2L3
Janet Anderson, "For the Beauty of the Earth," 2019
Janet Anderson: "Seen & Unseen"
I have a broad yet simple desire in my paintings: to create something beautiful. It’s not that I want to ignore the ugliness of life, far from it, but I want my pieces to encourage environments of relief, release, and tenderness. My intention is for my pieces to aid in transforming a house into a home, a board room into a table of open discussion, a facility into a space for community. Why flowers? I have asked myself the question many times over the past number of years. Maybe it’s because I find them infinitely beautiful: startling in their colour and tenacity and extravagance. A green shoot pushing up through the ground in spring, a seed head holding on by the roadside, or a brazen splash of pink peeking out around the green: these are gifts offered to a deep part within me. A part that sometimes I don’t even notice is needy until the gift is received. "Seen and Unseen" is a great description of my aesthetic, as I often paint the interplay between realism and semi-abstraction. It also speaks to my subject choice as I strive to highlight beauty that is missed, such as a wildflower growing on the side of a fence, or last years vines behind a clematis. In this time when the future feels largely 'unseen' it is such a gift to look and see all the beauty that surrounds us. - Janet Anderson
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