by janbetts | Jun 6, 2011
OK….at the suggestion of a couple friends, i am going to share the process of creating a painting. Here, i have posted the beginning of the piece i am now working on, and then a later development of it, as it looks this morning…and i will post another...
by janbetts | May 27, 2011
Wow! The photo of this painting, done many years ago, was just sent to me. Interesting that some of my recent posts have also been about “tears”. Much of my art reflects the images of inner realms of the human condition…both heaven and...
by janbetts | May 18, 2011
Woah….This is a totally different approach to a canvas for me. What an experience! I want to be able to explain it….but it is not possible. The title describes it….to fling out the dense visceral stuff still taking up precious inner space in my would...
by janbetts | May 8, 2011
Here is a painting of one of my dogs, my beautiful Lab, Maya. One early morning i was pondering …”Truth.” We can and do make things true in our minds all the time, and do so repeatedly in an almost steady stream, we even make lies...
by janbetts | Apr 30, 2011
This image for me represents a moment of spiritual expansion….in the arrival of a shock (lightning) and the inner Gift offered therein. A prayer, a true profound beseeching, ( in this case a dramatic scream ), actually contains the help at the very moment of its...
by janbetts | Apr 20, 2011
This painting was painted many years ago….but the image is one that to me stands on it’s own merit, in representing the state of mind where we finally give up “arms”, and multi-faceted inner resistance….and truly surrender to the most...
