Concentric Circles and Brief Synopsis of My Art Practice

Concentric Circles with Reflections

 

Acrylic on Arches paper, 8.5x11, 11/2018

 

Concentric Circles with Leaf

Acrylic on Arches paper, 8.5x11, 11/2018

 

 

 

Concentric Circles

Digital painting, 11/2018
Acrylic painting photographed and worked in photoshop



A Brief Synopsis of My Art Practice

 

 

I have been painting most of my life.  My earliest memory is of being delighted to smear finger paints.  Won first place in Sunday School art show, when I was seven years old.  I painted and sketched and had a couple of art classes in high school.  Had a few art classes as an adult.  Enjoyed learning from Marie Hull in Jackson, MS, in the sixties. She was very supportive, and encouraging. (I am 75 years old.)  I studied a few classes with Auseklis Ozols at New Orleans Academy of Fine Art.  He is an excellent teaches.  Took a few other classes here and there, mostly I dropped out before long, because they either taught something I already knew, or something I was not interested in learning, or mostly because I had a lot of responsibilities that kept me to busy for school. 

 

My instructions and art practice have been distracted by constant moving.  As an Air Force brat  moved constantly when my father was transferred.  Attended eighteen schools before graduating high school.  I continued frequent moving as an adult.  " Daddy always kept moving so she did too", Neil Young song. I have lived here, there and everywhere.  "I've been everywhere, man."  Willie Nelson song.

 

 Lived in post WWII occupied Japan, 1950, six years old. Seeing Japanese art and being in a very different culture had a tremendous effect on me, has influenced my art since that time. 

 

Another huge distraction from art was being married and divorced twice and being a single Mom. 

 

Never the less I always made art.  Way back in the day, I remember telling a friend, "I can make art when I am too tired to do anything else".   Her one word response was, "Good", she was also an artist. I usually had a studio, in a garage or a spare room.

 

I really identified as an artist in the mid seventies,  my early thirties.  At that time, I committed to doing serious work.

 

Over these many decades of painting my work, style and subject matter have been all over the map.  For the last, maybe twenty years, I have worked three main series, which I call:  POP Religion, Luminous Woman and Down to Earth (landscapes).

I work primarily on paper now, because I like it, and because I have run out of storage space for canvasses.

I have consistently produced art since the mid seventies, but have shown my work only intermittently.  I am just really terrible at marketing.  Not being successful has its upside.  I paint what I want, follow my muse where ever she leads.

In 2002, at 58, I finally found a stable home.  I work in my wonderful, beautiful studio, on my gorgeous property, almost every day.   

To see my resume click here:

https://janetboydart.blogspot.com/p/resume.html