Canadian painter Janice Beaudoin is a curious painter. She creates modern, playful yet sophisticated artworks that bring life and energy to the rooms they live in.
Janice is drawn to quirky forms, line and unexpected colour relationships. Discovery and risk-taking are an important part of her creative process. She begins her canvases with layers of colour and marks that are improvised, abstract, often chaotic. Through this process of layering, she adds and subtract, responding to the changing character of shapes, colours and lines that appear, disappear and re-appear. As she works, she begins to find a creative rhythm, a state of flow allows her to get lost in the painting and find her way back to a composition as the painting eventually begins to reveal its intent.
The content of her work is primarily non-objective and though she is drawn to quirky shapes and unusual colour relationships, often everyday objects become part of her paintings, showing themselves in unexpected ways. It’s this exciting and mysterious process of painting that continues to drive her to explore and develop her own unique aesthetic and visual language.
Janice's paintings are in private and corporate collections across North America, Europe and Asia.. Her work has been published in British Vogue magazine as well as World of Interiors.
She lives and works in beautiful British Columbia.