Author Archives: janbetts

I have been away from my art for 3 or 4 months. There was simply no wind in my sails. Then this one came thundering through: I have experienced the “dissolving/becoming”. It was terrible/wonderous! I lost myself. I fell. To … Continue reading →

It has been a long time since i published the previous morphs of this painting…. “life” has taken me out of my art studio for some weeks, but now i am back. So here is morph #4 I have nothing … Continue reading →

I have been away from my blog for awhile… but now i am back, with my newest art project, and my first 3 morphs…. as the painting develops. I have been eying an unfinished painting that i have had stored … Continue reading →

Intuitive Splash – now finished.  Acrylic and oils on canvas… 27 1/2″ x 47″ ( 70 x 120 cmts).           This piece was painted with no purpose other than to spontaneously dance with color and texture and feeling…nothing representational that … Continue reading →

  4. Here it is today….and on it goes…where it stops nobody knows….:)         close up of #4.

*1. First installment…january 7 OK…here i go again beginning a painting with no thought…just playing in movement and colors bouncing about in  splashes…. It is a time of breaking out and expanding beyond old ‘boxes’ (both personally and artistically)… allowing … Continue reading →

  Here is the finished painting…”Speechless.” (click image to enlarge) The title arrived in a magical way. Every title idea that came to me felt just wrong altogether…until i remembered that what happens in this vision has no mental definition … Continue reading →

  Morph #3. Colors deepening, brightening….more spheres….and then, quite by surprise….ta da!!!”They” came in….mmmmmm….and i got such a rush of Love and playfullness as they began appearing in the bubble orbs….and they will continue to develope as i go on…..soon … Continue reading →

Morph 1. I began this painting over a month ago ( oct 2011 )…and it has been waiting for me to return to find its Gift. I don’t know what will morph into being next…it is a mystery. Here it … Continue reading →

Ok…here it is finished. “Zen Carnival” I don’t want to say too much here. I will leave this painting’s meaning to each viewer’s imagination…so  I want to keep it pure… I had no idea where to begin, i had no … Continue reading →