Phrases by Janet Trierweiler

32 x 43 inches
2020
Oil on canvas

Janet enjoys creating gestural abstract and figurative paintings. Her focus is on the sensual nature of art and the healing aspect of beauty.

“Like the meeting point of mind and body, experienced through yoga and the Chakra system, artistic composition can be felt both physically and through conscious response.”

This interest in the full spectrum of human experience, from primal instincts to highest consciousness led to her studies of Eastern art and healing, becoming a Reiki Master through the Usui Shiki Ryoho System of Natural Healing and Certified Feng Shui Designer at the New York Institute of Art and Design. Janet says the acceptance of paradox has been one of the most healing lessons of her life. Her process reflects this attitude. It is both fluid and structural, organic and geometric, “improv and laborious design.” “Painting is the challenge of bringing together what is seen and what is felt as one integrated unified whole.”

Janet is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she received her BFA in Studio Art, she teaches drawing and painting, currently online, and leads workshops on Drawing as Meditation as well as other topics. Collectors include Northwestern University, the Illinois Institute of Art, Frank Thomas and Fifield Companies.