Work samples

  • Undefended Love
    Undefended Love
  • Into the Wild
    Into the Wild
  • Off The Chain
    Off The Chain
  • Rise Above
    Rise Above

About Jan

I am an emerging acrylic abstract painter. I entered painting in 2022 due to boredom and loneliness after moving to Maryland during the pandemic. I signed up for a 12-week online painting class and discovered a needed path to interact with myself. Within the painting experience, I discovered I could create my own adventure! Art suprised me - becoming the antidote to my rewarding but one-sided role as a sex and couple's psychotherapist. Within painting, I can return to self after hours… more

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Atmospheric

I love atmospheric paintings because they provide the space to allow me to superimpose a meaning when viewed. Despite loving them they often elude me! When I capture one I feel lucky because painting without shapes is difficult for me. I haven't figured out how to manifest one on demand.  This project will be challenging.

  • Undefended Love
    Undefended Love
  • Blue Rainbow
    Blue Rainbow
  • Rain Storm
    Rain Storm
  • Making a Wish
    Making a Wish
  • Trees Running Through the Woods
    Trees Running Through the Woods

Geometric

Things that are enclosed  seem to flow from my painting. I am not sure where this comes from.  It could be born from my clinical background as a sex and couples therapist.   Attachment theory.. connection..boundaries.. all suggest closeness while maintaining separateness. Knowing where one begins and ends is the building block of great relationships.  I like to see distinct boundaries in painting but like a painting better if the shapes are organic and not at all perfect.  I love a wobbly sphere it invites the non perfect part of me to be welcomed in.

  • Limoncello
    Limoncello
  • Getting Out of My Own Way
    Getting Out of My Own Way
  • Superhero
    Superhero
  • Stairway to Heaven
    Stairway to Heaven
  • Feeling Green
    Feeling Green
  • Geodes
    Geodes
  • Blue Velvet
    Blue Velvet
  • The Winds of March
    The Winds of March

Nature

Nature soothes. It grounding to be within it. It's familiar. I find bringing it in my home through plants offers a similar experience.  I want to paint abstracted nature to offer the viewer a potential soothing to their nervous system.

  • Sky and Sea
    Sky and Sea
  • After the Rain
    After the Rain
  • Fiddle Leaf Fig Tree
    Fiddle Leaf Fig Tree

Landscape

  • Inner Glow
    Inner Glow
  • Becoming Myself
    Becoming Myself
  • Inner Work
    Inner Work
  • Come As You Are
    Come As You Are
  • Staring at the Sun
    Staring at the Sun