Contemporary Canadian Art . Janet Bright LANDSCAPES . Land & Sea . April 2015 Click the image to view the LANDSCAPES Land & Sea catalogue
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you will amaze yourself
Everyone likes a sound bite. A short phrase that summarizes information, conveys a certain feeling and entices readers or viewers to think further about broader issues. Since the term was coined in the U.S. media, ‘sound bite’ has been associated largely with politics and the wily business of selling (or manipulating) one’s point of view […]
a practical course of action
When you head out for the day, do you ever stop to think about the spaces and people around you? Most of us don’t. Our every day worlds and the places we live have been reduced to spaces of liminal ‘docking’; where we spend our time waiting, in transition, impatient, uncertain. There is opportunity for encounter, interaction […]
i can see for miles & miles / 30″ x 36″
i can see for miles and miles / 30″ x 36″ / on canvas / landscape / janet bright
lost in translation
I have a friend who, while awaiting her mother in a professional office one day, found herself face to face with one of her mother’s colleagues. Because my friend felt nervous in this place where she was so clearly ‘out-of-place’, she stood abruptly, thinking, “this man must be wondering who I am and what I’m […]
i like it. i hate it.
What is it that makes you like something or not? Regardless of what an artist has to say about their work, people will like or dislike something based solely on how they are feeling the exact moment they see it. Reactions can’t be controlled, and an artist can talk until they’re blue in the face about […]
eclipse 1979
Click the image to watch the video ( 53 seconds) Where were you on that day? A total Solar Eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on earth. The path of totality of the February 26 […]
plein air painting in canada / rain fall
click the image below to watch the video / 4.58 min plein air painting in canada / rain fall / 48″ x 48″ / 2014 janet bright
‘Living Modernism’ February 05 – March 31, 2014
Living Modernism at Tartooful Design Presenting vignettes of life; inviting living spaces & an experience of the aesthetic, beauty and function of Living Modernism. Modernism as a method of living. Objects of function. Objects of meaning. Objects of beauty. Tartooful Design / feb 05- mar 31 3183 Edgemont Boulevard, North Vancouver, […]
commodity of colour 01 014 1824 14 / #014 / 18″ x 24″
commodity of colour 01 014 1824 14 / 14th in series / 18″ x 24″ / on panel The human experience of colour is generic. Yellow from any source is yellow, red is red and blue is blue. It is the visual commodity of our everyday; un-branded, ubiquitous and essential. It is a […]
commodity of colour 01 013 1248 14 / #012 / 12″ x 48″
commodity of colour 01 013 1248 14 / 13th in series / 12″ x 48″ / on panel The human experience of colour is generic. Yellow from any source is yellow, red is red and blue is blue. It is the visual commodity of our everyday; un-branded, ubiquitous and essential. It is a […]
commodity of colour 01 012 1248 14 / #012 / 12″ x 48″
commodity of colour 01 012 1248 14 / 12th in series / 12″ x 48″ / on panel The human experience of colour is generic. Yellow from any source is yellow, red is red and blue is blue. It is the visual commodity of our everyday; un-branded, ubiquitous and essential. It […]