Welcome to Jana Parkes' Online Art Gallery
Blessings, and thank you for visiting my online gallery of art!
I feel that art nurtures and feeds our souls, and painting is what I feel passionate about doing. With most of the paintings on the website I have descriptions of how I experience them, but each person will have their own experience of them. Each painting has a story to it, and for some of the paintings I have photo blogged the story of their creation.
Whether you're just viewing or buying, I hope that you enjoy them! I certainly feel blessed by them, both in creating them and experiencing them afterwards. I would hope that for the paintings that go to a new home that it would be like the woman on an Antiques Roadshow said when she told the host that she'd had the painting that she had with her for 20 years, and that she hadn't "finished looking at it yet."
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In order to make enjoying the artwork more affordable I have now licensed it with Fine Art America. They have a huge selection of items that the artwork is printed on including prints, cards, pillows, tote bags, iphone cases, mugs, t-shirts, duvet covers, shower curtains and more. Click here to visit that site.
Also, to make purchasing easier, I have switched some of the blankets to my Etsy shop. I am hoping to include fiber art there in the future. Click here to visit that site.
And, I now have short videos of a number of original paintings, prints and the blankets. Click here to go to my YouTube channel.
To see the latest additions in paintings, prints, shows and news, click the "What's New?" at the top of this page.
Artist's Statement
I feel within me a deep, inner drive, and need, to express through painting. When I paint, I never know what is going to come through. Before I paint I ask, with an open heart, for whatever is for the highest good for all. To me, what seems to come through most often are depictions and energetic variations of Love, Light and Joy. Other times it's about the fullness of life including celebration, grieving, and passion.
Some of the paintings are cosmic looking with stars and nebula, reminding us of a bigger picture of life, and some are what I call "energy expressions". Expressions and representations of emotions and energies of things that are not visible to our human eyes.
As the scientists tell us, nothing is really solid, it is all varying vibrations of energy.
I really like how Madelaine L'Engle put it in her story "A Wrinkle in Time", when she said, "What is visible is temporary, what is invisible is eternal."
There is a fascinating video of a talk that Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroanatomist and brain researcher, gave to a TED conference describing how, when she had a stroke, she discovered how the right brain connects with the larger world of energy and oneness, and how the left brain perceives and manages the world of physicality and separation. Click here to see this 18 minute video.
Perhaps a good way to describe the paintings is to share what a friend wrote in an e-mail after the holidays, after she had received the fourth painting that she had bought from me over the years: "Your painting was so enjoyed by many and it has truly been an inspiration for me! I cannot really explain the radiance that comes from it, but I know that you were definitely inspired when creating it. Again, I am so blessed to have one of your special creations here to enjoy. I really cannot say that they are merely paintings hanging on my wall. Each one has a special message for me and it seems that every one brings more depth and unexplained love than the prior one."
To learn more about how I paint, or more about my background click here.
So, feel free to peruse the paintings, blogs, etc., and even bookmark the site and come back to visit again. Enjoy, and thanks again for visiting!
blessings, Jana
"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection" - Michelangelo
