Luminous Woman
Flower Breeze
archival digital print, 5/18/21
close up
A Young Daughter of the Picts
archival inkjet print, 12/2020
This image was inspired by a friend, Jesse Poinboeuf's, post of a picture on Facebook. The original picture is assumed to have been painted in about the 1580's by Jacque Le Moyne de Morgues, but the facts are a bit muddled. Previously the painting was attributed to another artist and a earlier time. The original picture is an imaginary image, painted to represent ancient (yes, ancient to the people of the 1500's), Scottish people who were called Picts. It is an interesting history that you may want to google. Scholars surmise that the image illustrates a Pict that the artist assumed was similar to tattooed North American Natives. The flowers of the original picture are flowers that were popular in England in the 1500's, adding anachronism to the muddle of history. It is a really fun, mysterious image.
close up, Babee in the Belly
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Luminous Woman, 5/6/21
archival inkjet print, digital
Spring with Cheshire Cat
archival inkjet print, 5/6/21When
This lovely woman named Spring, is bedecked with beautiful flowers. She is swaying gracefully in a vintage forest. Her hand gestures towards the cat. Everything is beautiful, except for the Cheshire Cat. That Cat! The image of the trickster signifies all the dirty tricks that life bestows. Is he evil? Maybe, maybe not. He is the one throwing glitches at earthlings everyday. I, you, can blame the trickster. When your bad thumb pushes the wrong button on the clicker, blame the Cheshire Cat. When I get confused and cook the recipe wrong, the Cheshire Cat made me do it. When one is called into the managers office for an anal evaluation, and things do not go well, that is definitely the Cheshire Cat playing annoying tricks.
Rose Dancer
Archival inkjet print, 5/21
There is something spiritual about this picture. A beautiful, feminine dancer is ecstatically merging with the graceful lines and vibrant color of an exquisite rose. I think that it portrays the height of joy. An epiphany of light.
Created in photoshop for archival ink jet prints. This is similar to an image that I created a few years ago. I used the same female silhouette from an earlier picture.
The openness of her posture shows an abandonment of worry, escape from the nagging of daily reality. A portal has opened for her to a higher level of spirit.
When you look at this, I hope that you are aware of the human potential for joy. I hope that your heart strings vibrate with vibrant color.
To purchase this print go to Saatchi Art, https://www.saatchiart.com/account/artworks/1111821
Amazing Grace
archival digital print, 4/24/21
Amazing Grace, close up
Grace Grape
archival inkjet print, completed recently
Jitterbug
Archival inkjet print, 3/29/21
iwOw! I had so much fun with this. I was playing around with creations that I call, "Geometrixs". I make stars, mandalas, harlequin patterns. I put my brain on autopilot and just messed around with line and color. Mostly, I used the "liquify" function of photoshop. I saw a figure emerging so i shaped the lines to make the figure more clear. Then I saw a woman, similar to the females in my "Luminous Woman" series. Similar, but very different. Her auric energy is as exciting as fireworks.
Below is "Geometrix, 3-21", the image that I created and then manipulated to make the Jitterbug figure. Both make luminous prints. Look in the left side column, scroll down, to see info on how to purchase.
Geometrix, 3-21
close up of Jitterbug's head
Amazon Grace
Archival digital print, 3/24/21
I wish that I could float in the air, flying and dancing. Doesn't that sound divine? I truly enjoyed creating this picture. I hope that you enjoy looking at it.
The Sun Also Rises
Archival ink jet print, 3/23/2021
Resting on Couch
limited edition of 50, signed, archival inkjet print, 1/2021
Well, here is a picture of a woman relaxing comfortably. A bit of a change in subject matter, because usually my women figures are very active. They dance, they fly, they do yoga. I guess it is time to take a rest after all that exercise. She looks peaceful and contented.
The colors are rich and mellow. I think that they are yummy, like a chocolate covered cherry. The woman is depicted with minimal graceful lines.
I create digital works similar to the way that I create with paint and canvas. Using digital brushes I create lines and texture that show, "the mark of the maker". The composition of the painting creates a large "X", with the blue throw balancing the diagonal line of the woman and the window.
You may order a print by clicking on my email address in the column to the right and leaving me a message stating the print that you want. Prints, 8.5x11", are $60.00. An acrylic on canvas original painting may be commissioned, write to me about the size that you want and I will email you back about the price. Your commissioned painting will be very similar, but not exactly like this digital image.
Happy New Year!! Surely 2021 will be better than last year. Stay healthy.
Nike Popped
Acrylic on canvas, 24"x24", 12/19
Nike Popped, closeup
Three Graces, Painterly
Acrylic on canvas, 4/20, 48"x36"
Three Graces, Crystalized
Acrylic on canvas, 48"x36", 5/2020
Three Graces, Cubismo
Limited edition of 50, archival ink-jet print,, 4/2020
Three Graces, Joy
Limited edition of 50, archival ink-jet print, 4/2020
Pomona
Limited edition of 50, archival ink jet print, 11/2/2020
Sometimes, I wish that I was a tree. No, I dont, for I am contented with my life as a human. But, trees are some of my best friends. The big trunked oaks around my home, pine trees, fruit trees, I could go on and on about my love for trees.
There is a large oak here, must be six feet in diameter and i dont know how tall, 60 feet, 80 feet tall? This is Grandmother tree. Sometimes, I leave her offerings in a knot of the trunk.
Another tree is Great Grandmother tree. In the eighteen years that I have been here she has suffered from decrepitude of old age. Large branches have fallen off during storms. She is covered with trumpet vines, embellished with orange flowers. The trunk is hollow, some critter lives in there. An armadillo? She perseveres, hanging onto life, in the middle of a mown field, between two creeks. She has immense character, unusual beauty.
Another tree is Dragon Tree. A swamp Tupelo that has a 20 foot long, undulating, dragon like root at the edge of the creek.
Tree women, women integrated with trees, have tended to reappear in my art practice for decades.
Pomona is a sacred wood nymph in ancient Roman mythology. There were sacred groves of fruit trees dedicated to her in ancient Rome.
Yoga with Pelicans
Limited edition of 50, archival ink-jet print, 6/2020
Yoga Symmetry
Limited edition of 50, archival ink-jet print, 7/2020
Yoga Sunbeams
Limited edition of 50, archival ink-jet print, 8/2020
Dance, Lyra, Billie
Limited edition of 50, archival ink-jet print, 4/2020
Dance, Spring
Limited edition of 50, archival ink-jet print, 4/2020
Luminous Woman, is a theme that has been part of my art flow for several decades. It is a series of enduring interest for me. I have found many inspirations for the feminine pictures that I create.
The pictures of Nike and Three Graces use ancient Greek Goddesses for inspiration. They are visual metaphors, a nexus of imagery for communication. Since the beginning of civilization, across the ages, visual images of women have been reinforcing our conception of the ideal attributes of femininity. Nike personifies victory and strength. The Three Graces represent charm, grace and beauty.
Dancing women and yoga poses are more inspiration for my art. I like depicting female bodies in strong and graceful positions.
For some of my pictures, I have photographed models for inspiration.
I have spoken of the "why do I do this", before, maybe something new will emerge this time. As a woman femininity interests me. As the vessel for childbirth, we women are constructed to incubate babies. The man plants a seed, he may not even know when he becomes a father. I have birthed three sons. Much love is brought to be from the actions of our bodies. Mother's love for child. Child's love for Mother.
And, many other loves are created in many ways.
Love is light, luminous.
Love has many flavors.
I aim for beauty created with paint and brush, and other mediums. And, who knows? My art may make the world a better place.
A woman does not need to birth a baby to be luminous and create love in her world.
All of us humans, animals and plants have a light body, an aura. I have sensed it with my eyes, with the touch of my hand and with my consciousness. I have sensed it while in spontaneous, naturally occurring altered states of consciousness. Sometimes, just out of the blue, I have seen the dazzling lights of nature. I know that there is more to this life than we sense in our "normal" state of consciousness. I dont understand a lot about the deep underlying meanings of these altered states. I know that it is spiritual, but I do not have many facts. This deep sensing informs my art.
Floating Dancers
acrylic on paper, 16x24", 7/19
Floating Light
acrylic on paper, 24x16",10/19
Looking Up, Gold
acrylic on panel, 24x16", 2/19
Looking Up, Katherine Hepburn
digital, limited edition of 50, Ink jet print
Pensive
Acrylic on board, 2014
Luminous Woman
4/2018
Luminous Woman is a series that I have worked on, off and on, for many years. This series is related to, the Mary is My Muse series. The series are not just related, they are intertwined, they are really just two designations of very similar themes. In painting these images of women, I explore, and attempt to share, nonverbal representations of female ideals and characteristics. One of the main pursuits of my life has been trying to develop my capacity for compassion, which I see as the Yin energy of life. (By the way, this is not an easy path.) I attempt to communicate compassion in some of my pictures. In addition, Yang energies, the universal rivers of power and strength, are a theme. Just as all humans have Yang energies, we also all have Yin energies.
Wisty
Limited edition of 50 archival inkjet prints, Signed and numbered, 4/2018
Woman Dragonfly
Limited edition of 50 signed and numbered inkjet archival prints
Face Now
Limited edition of 50 signed and numbered inkjet archival prints , 4/18
Winged Victory
Nike, Winged Victory of Samothrace
Original statue in the Louvre, Paris
Original statue in the Louvre, Paris
Limited edition of 50 signed and numbered inkjet archival prints
Aurora Borealis
Limited edition of 50 signed and numbered inkjet archival prints, 8/2013
Tina Turner
I love Tina Turner for her fierceness, her strength. I was blessed to see her in the fabled Roosevelt Blue Room, and another small venue in the early seventies. Her fame was at a low point, which enabled me to see her in intimate settings. Energy came off of her like the shock waves of a jack hammer. Her huge voice sent reverberations bouncing off of the walls. She performed, with a bellowing voice and staccato dancing until her early 70's. She embodies Yang energies. Her example of feminine super powers will live within me, will inspire me, till the end of my days.
Tina Turner, What's Love Got to do With It?
Limited edition of 50 signed and numbered inkjet archival prints, 2016
Tina Turner Medusa
Limited edition of 50 signed and numbered inkjet archival prints, 2016
Mary is My Muse
An art series related to Woman
the feminine principle
feminine energy
Please, take a look.
Sizzlin' Eyes Liz
Limited edition of 50 signed and numbered inkjet archival prints, 8/13
Angelina Jolie, Queen of the Night
Limited edition of 50 signed and numbered inkjet archival prints, 3/13
Woman, universal female energy, the essential female principle, mysterious yin, Goddess, fertility, reproduction, nurturance, protection, beauty. Woman is an art theme that has intrigued me since I was a child.
In about 2011, or so, I named the series, "Mary is My Muse", which validated for me that Woman is a serious, reoccurring theme in my art. The project is concerned with Yin, the female spirit being in human bodies here on earth. It also references the gentle, nurturing virtues of men and all genders. Also concerned with the concept of compassionate love.
Mary is everywhere and in everyone, and everyone is with Mary.
At least that is the theory that this series is based on. This statement is not a "belief" of mine, or maybe it is a belief. Such a pretty idea: Mary/compassion, is omnipresent. I have decided to "believe" in ideas that make me happy, regardless of evidence to the contrary. "Hold your beliefs lightly". "True beliefs" cinched tightly in the mind lead to dead ins of fanaticism. You can make up your own mind. And you can change your mind when ever you want. There is a bit of yin everywhere.
These visual creations are concerned with the strength of female spirit. Visual images are less strictly rational than verbal statements. The aims for an art series are not verbal, the direction of the images flows from a nonverbal. nonconcrete flow. In other words, I don't know what I am talking about. HaHa. But, still, I am giving it a try, trying to cook up words that parallel the art.
When trying to explore life, art and femininity, a bit of humor is required to balance the confused seriousness. (I am just speaking for myself here.) Comic relief is necessary, why?, because life IS funny, because it is better to laugh than to cry, because whenever I try to pack a life view into my suitcase, skullcase, a sock or something, always hangs out of the side, preventing closure.
So, Barbie Makes a Scene, (Hot News, Alert the Media). Barbie makes a scene to facilitate frictitious understanding of the fabled foibles of plastic and flesh.
Switched at Birth
A pair of mother and baby paintings
Mary with Krishna
Limited edition of 50 signed and numbered inkjet archival prints
detail
Mary with Krishna
Oil on canvas, 48"hx36"w, 2013
detail
Yashoda with Jesus
This is the digital version
Limited edition of 50 signed and numbered inkjet archival prints
canvas version is 36"wx48"h, 2013
detail
Switched at Birth, don't you think that the nursery nurses would have noticed that the blue baby belonged with the blue mother and the pink baby belonged with the pink mother?
This pair of paintings was prompted by the similarities between Jesus and Krishna. Both are hybrid humans/gods. Born of a human mother and inseminated by God. Both came to earth to save suffering and confused humans from eternal stupidity.
The paintings were featured at Antenna Gallery, curated by Jerald White for the New Orleans Loving Festival, June, 2014, and at Tripolo Gallery, Donna Duffy Gallerist, August, 2014.
To read more about these paintings, click here:
Baby God Crying
Baby God Crying
Canvas painting, 36"wx48"h, 2013
Over the last few years I have created many pictures of the Christian Mary and her counterparts in other cultures. Myths are metaphoric answers to our deepest needs. Myths are stories that can help us understand our experiences. Old and ancient stories can guide us in making decisions. And connect us with ancient roots. Mother Goddesses fulfil our original need for an all loving, all giving Mother. This is a universal basic need.
Here's Barbie
Making a scene, again.
Hot News!!!! Alert the MEDIA!
Bug Eyed Barbie
Limited edition of 50 signed and numbered inkjet archival prints , 2013
T.V. Head Barbie
Limited edition of 50 signed and numbered inkjet archival prints, 2013
detail
Barbie on Prozac
Limited edition of 50 signed and numbered inkjet archival prints, 2013
Barbie Flaunting her Bikini Body for the Paparazzi
Limited edition of 50 signed and numbered inkjet archival prints
Barbie is still a megastar, she is 50 years old. She stars in own movies, and she has all the cool toys, like beach front condos and flashy cars. And, she never ages! Some women want to be Barbie, even going to surgical lengths. I wouldn't go that far, but I would like to have the perks.
Elizabarbie
Limited edition of 50 signed and numbered inkjet archival prints , 2011
There is also a acrylic on board version, 2011
Elizabarbie with her Dragon
Limited edition of 50 signed and numbered inkjet archival prints, 2011
Next is a group of Mary collages.
Mary, Queen of Heaven
Mixed media, original digital collage elements and acrylic paint
detail
detail
Mary, Queen of All
Mixed media, digital collage elements and acrylic paint
detail
Mary Vitruvian
digital, painting in process
This a group of paintings which reference a modern classic representation of Mary. It is a picture remembered from childhood, a traditional Christian representation. I have been unable to identify the artist, please let me know if you know the artist's name. I am currently working on a third picture done with this procedure.
There are two major elements in the pictures: the background and the principle large figure image, which is digitally collaged.
The background is the energetic aura of Mary. It is created with Golden brand acrylic paints and mediums. The picture that I am working on now is given a jewel like aura by using interference paints and iridescent paints. Gloss and matte mediums give depth to the paint.
For the head of Mary, I arrange the small digital elements into the large image. I have a library of original digital images that I have been creating since the late 90's. (Well, some of the images are in a crashed computer, not available.) I can reuse and rework images that I created years ago. This takes hours, hours. I enjoy it because I am absorbed in the work. It is work that I want to do. Work that makes me happy. I hope to communicate with other humans on a nonrational level. I hope to communicate, to share the images with others.
I am currently, 6/12/15, working on a Mary Collage. I have the first layer of paint on canvas. I used cobalt blue, pearl paint, and mediums. I am playing with some wonderful Golden brand paints with pearl mica chips, tiny glass balls, and interference blue. Lots of fun. I think about jewels.
Above you see the digital draft for the collage pieces. I will plot the cuts, print it on archival paper, cut the pieces and fix them in place with various mediums.
Tada!
More Mary
Mother and Child
Limited edition of 50 signed and numbered inkjet archival prints, 2011
detail
Next up:
Next up:
Zatay, Goddess of Something or Other
detail
Zatay
Limited edition of 50 signed and numbered inkjet archival prints, 2011
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"Zatay" is a Goddess that I made up. Her garments are borrowed from a Korean spirit. Her face I borrowed from Elizabeth Taylor. The background is a picture of a bamboo garden in Japan. "Mash up art" is fun. Zatay is the Goddess of art, hoaxes and astral projection, or what every you or I want her to be.
Woman, Water, Wet
Phoenix Flying
Limited edition of 50 signed and numbered inkjet archival prints , 2013
The Source of Water
Acrylic on canvas, 16"x20", 2006
Dancer in Opal
Limited edition of 50 signed and numbered inkjet archival prints, 12/2013
Opal Dakini
Digital, 2013
Dancing with Moon
digital, 2010
Marilyn Aphrodite
Digital version, Limited edition of 50 signed and numbered inkjet archival prints
Acrylic on Canvas version is similar, H20"xW16", 2013
Next is a Group of "Geishas"
Head of Wasabi
digital, 2011
Wasabi
Limited edition of 50 signed and numbered inkjet archival prints , 2011
Stop in the Name of Love
Limited edition of 50 signed and numbered inkjet archival prints , 2012
detail
The term "Geisha" is used loosely here. Even though I spent time in Japan as a child, where I began a love affair with Japanese aesthetic culture, these paintings have, with out doubt, a western bias. Geishas are practitioners of an ancient art. As girls they train to be entertainers. They sing, dance, play instruments and games. They are experts at the art of seduction. They flatter and titillate their clients. In a standard gig with paying clients she makes allusion to sex. She is so skillful that an allusion is all she needs to provide a satisfying encounter. She may or may not, be sexually promiscuous. She may engage in intercourse with select gentlemen, especially rich and powerful gentlemen.
Quan Yin
Acrylic on canvas, 2008, 24"x18"
Quan Yin, who has many names, is the bodhisattva of compassion and mercy. She is worshipped in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, Korea and Vietnam. In my decidedly western image she is depicted as a Buddha look-a-like.
Click here for more info about this painting:
Here is a Girl Child
Puzzled
digital painting, 1998
The girl in the picture is my sister, Kathi. The photograph was taken about 1952, after a day of touring too many Washington, DC, monuments, with our mother. I love her innocent angry girl child face. I scanned the photo and worked it with Photoshop.
Lagniappe
Elizabeth Cleopatra Head
digital, 2011
Elizabeth Cleopatra
digital, 2012
Bobble Headed, Big Eyed, Audrey Hepburn Buffoon
with
Superstar Princess Fou Fou
digital, 2012
detail
Oprah is the Reincarnation of Cleopatra
Digital painting, 12/2011
Click here to see more about this painting
Madonna for Primates
digital 2014
To read more about this picture, click here:
http://janetboydart.blogspot.com/2012/12/madonna-for-primates.html
A Few Portrait Like Pictures:
Angelina Medusa
digital, 2010
Cardinal Woman
acrylic on canvas, 24"hX16"w
Looking Up
digital, 2014
Katherine Hepburn is the inspiration for the face
I also a painted a canvas version of this image
Pensive
digital version
Pensive
acrylic on canvas, 2014
Seeing
digital, 2009
Louvre Mask
digital, 2008
Created in 2008 from a photograph that I took in Paris. If I remember correctly she is centuries old Etruscan. She is in a glass case, the reflection on the opposite glass was interesting to me, along with her beautiful profile, that is why I composed this digital mash up.
Mary is Everywhere
Mary in Paris
digital, 2009
Mary by de Bayou
digital, acrylic painting is 16"hX24"w, 2010
Mary in de Nint Ward
digital, 2010
Foot Bridge
Digital painting, 2011
That's all folks. Thanks for looking. Hope you enjoyed it. Live long and prosper.
To purchase Janet Boyd Art go to Saatchi Art, clik here: There is something spiritual about this picture. A beautiful, feminine dancer is ecstatically merging with the graceful lines and vibrant color of an exquisite rose. I think that it portrays the height of joy. An epiphany of light.
Created in photoshop for archival ink jet prints. This is similar to an image that I created a few years ago. I used the same female silhouette from an earlier picture.
The openness of her posture shows an abandonment of worry, escape from the nagging of daily reality. A portal has opened for her to a higher level of spirit.
When you look at this, I hope that you are aware of the human potential for joy. I hope that your heart strings vibrate with vibrant color.
To purchase Janet Boyd Art go to Saatchi Art, click here: https://www.saatchiart.com/account/artworks/1111821
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