PROTECTION
Artwork
by
Jan Price
by
Jan Price
Jan Price’s poetry continues to be published in Australia and the United States, through Universities, in hard copy and online. She loves poetry competitions, open readings and sells her paintings at art shows. Jan is sometimes asked to provide art for Literary covers. She studies Thought Distraction in re to Depression. She lives in Victoria Australia.
Artist's statement: The emotions of people form the foundation of my art. Books and films filled with dignified drama of human survival and the contrast of unselfish and selfish degrees of love, all of which are expressed through the eyes, mouth, eyebrows and follow-through reactions of the body within that moment, are readily condensed and unobtrusively available through films and books. Extending outward, of course the natural world offers the unexpected, like photographing a crow in sudden flight, but not realizing, until checking your shot, that one wing had caught on sun-fire. That difference lifts the painting. Then there is the wide world. This particular study (of late) has mentally travelled me to China. China has produced flocks of bird-shaped missile drones. To translate this information into a symbolic visual, I’ve decided to focus on an aftermath missile attack scene, in which a ten to twelve year old girl, turns her shock into watering her (killed) mother’s geranium with a leaking cup, until her mother’s return. In regard to cloth, my favourite painter is Gustav Klimt. His colours and unconventional designs are my impossible dreams. My current experiment relies on water. After finishing a painting of a figure, I position it at eye level outside my clear glass door, then spray the door on the outside with water, then take a photo of the painting from inside of the glass door. The ‘rain’ effect causes me to love painting even more. I then have them printed on canvas. Lucky for me, they sell very well. Occasionally, I’m asked to supply artwork for literary journal covers.
Artist's statement: The emotions of people form the foundation of my art. Books and films filled with dignified drama of human survival and the contrast of unselfish and selfish degrees of love, all of which are expressed through the eyes, mouth, eyebrows and follow-through reactions of the body within that moment, are readily condensed and unobtrusively available through films and books. Extending outward, of course the natural world offers the unexpected, like photographing a crow in sudden flight, but not realizing, until checking your shot, that one wing had caught on sun-fire. That difference lifts the painting. Then there is the wide world. This particular study (of late) has mentally travelled me to China. China has produced flocks of bird-shaped missile drones. To translate this information into a symbolic visual, I’ve decided to focus on an aftermath missile attack scene, in which a ten to twelve year old girl, turns her shock into watering her (killed) mother’s geranium with a leaking cup, until her mother’s return. In regard to cloth, my favourite painter is Gustav Klimt. His colours and unconventional designs are my impossible dreams. My current experiment relies on water. After finishing a painting of a figure, I position it at eye level outside my clear glass door, then spray the door on the outside with water, then take a photo of the painting from inside of the glass door. The ‘rain’ effect causes me to love painting even more. I then have them printed on canvas. Lucky for me, they sell very well. Occasionally, I’m asked to supply artwork for literary journal covers.
