Biography: Janet Bothne studied Fine Art with a focus on painting at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in the early 1980’s. She remained there for a year and later moved on to numerous endeavors including antique restoration, freelance portraiture & illustration, painting commercial murals, working as a disc jockey and driving a school bus. She moved to the Los Angeles area in 1996 where she married her artist’s eye with computer skills and became a graphic designer, though her love of painting increasingly nagged. She began attending as many art classes as she could in her spare time at UCLA and Brentwood Art Center, Los Angeles before leaving her job to pursue her artwork full-time in 2002.
Janet believes that we have personal associations with colors. Color consistently plays important roles in our emotional states and reveals much about personalities. Color is a mood enhancer and through paint it is her natural anti-depressant. With paint, she weaves her colors, searching for the exquisite relationships that might bring about that harmonious hum or violent discord. The number of possible combinations makes this search both exhilarating and exhausting to contemplate. But color is a mischievous playmate, changing with light or context, dancing or colliding. It is alive and ever changing, and once you acknowledge its power as your teacher, it becomes your ally in the struggle not to struggle.
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