Janak Narayan "Stolling Through Italy" Contemporary Landscape Fine Artwork Painting

Janak Narayan "Stolling Through Italy" Contemporary Landscape Fine Artwork Painting

Nature inspires me. Nature provides that joy and healing that I need often. She anchors me and inspires me in a myriad of ways. I have enjoyed interpreting nature in my own way. Like many artists I too started by making realistic representational work. I enjoyed learning classic art and plein air painting study.

As I cruised on the path of finding my identity as an artist , I realized I was veering toward merging representational work with abstraction. I enjoyed looking at the world like I was creating a mosaic. My work has progressively become more free, more lucid, more spontaneous. I love pure luscious colors that makes the composition vibrant and infused with joy. I feel my art parallels my life and I guess I want to keep it simple, joyful and be able to look at the big picture versus fussing on the myopic and trivial elements.

My compositions are mostly from my photographs that I take all the time - they could be foliage in my back yard with the sun streaming through or the exotic locales from my travels. I have hundreds of photographs of just my backyard pond and about a dozen painting inspired by that very scene! Nature is like a kaleidoscope - it is just a matter of light and shadow play to create something new every day!

"I PAINT SOMETIMES AS I SEE IT, OTHER TIMES AS I IMAGINE IT - BUT ALWAYS BECAUSE I AM LOVING IT!"