Janet Read
Born in Toronto but raised near Kempenfelt Bay, I am drawn to water and the varying landscapes of the northern Atlantic rim. Residencies in Newfoundland and Ireland as well as travels in Scotland, Iceland, Greenland and Canada’s high Arctic inspire and inform by work. Irish settler ancestry in the Ottawa valley may explain a fondness for poetry, fiddle music and the sea.
Born in Toronto but raised near Kempenfelt Bay, I am drawn to water and the varying landscapes of the northern Atlantic rim. Residencies in Newfoundland and Ireland as well as travels in Scotland, Iceland, Greenland and Canada’s high Arctic inspire and inform by work. Irish settler ancestry in the Ottawa valley may explain a fondness for poetry, fiddle music and the sea.
$650.00
Oil on panel.
16x16x1"
Climate change accelerates in the Arctic and rising seas will come.
$650.00
Oil on panel.
16x16x1"
At sea there are two elemental forms; sea and sky in constant dialogue, a fluid mysterious conversation.
$800.00
Acrylic on panel.
18x18x1"
The sea is deep blue, slightly sluggish with the combination of salt and cold. The blue reads dark against the white if ice and snow dusted headlands.
$1,500.00
Oil on panel.
24x24x1"
Cloud study came from observations of wind and cloud near my home near Lake Simcoe where the prevailing weather moves west to east from Georgian Bay through Kempenfeldt Bay and travels east….great sweeps of cloud harried by the west wind.
$650.00
Acrylic on panel.
16x16x1"
Work inspired by travels in the high arctic and Greenland in 2018, 2023. Luminous sky and endless horizons prompt abstract responses to land and sea.