Anna Janiak

It's this amalgamation of architecture and art that informs my early art practice as a painter. Each painting starts with an observation of the everyday. Sometimes it takes a second for the brain to register certain colours, certain compositions, certain spaces. Very often a photo is taken, a clear vision is created in my head. Then comes the painting and you never end up with what the initial intent was. I'm heavily focused on the interpretation of everyday spaces. Sometimes very obvious spaces, sometimes those more hidden and unexpected. Still, quiet, empty, mundane spaces, yet still worth exploration and attention. The focus on spaces helps to frame the subject, and work as a starting point for the painting process. But on a more artistic level it is a study of interpreting, noticing, remembering and reimagining. The practice focuses on observation and the appreciation of the everyday. There is so much detail, nuance, and the unexpected in natural and man made reality. Yet in the end it is the colour that overtakes the process of reimagining and reinterpreting. It liberates the rigid form of reality and translates it into a bold new creation. The brushstrokes are blurry, haphazard, intentional, sometimes purely accidental. It's the colour that conveys the emotion of the finished piece.

The visual language of her work is still in development. The colour is at the forefront. Micro and macro everyday spaces frame the narrative. The practice focuses on observation and the appreciation of the everyday, interpreting, noticing, remembering and reimagining. Yet in the end it is the colour that overtakes the process of reimagining and reinterpreting, liberating rigid form and translating it into something bold and new.