Art
Loyal Fatty by Janet K. Miller
- Item Number
- 244
- Estimated Value
- 260 USD
- Sold
- 87 USD to vikkid67
- Number of Bids
- 1 - Bid History
Item Description
Loyal Fatty
Reverse glass painting,
dimensions: 12" x 14"
by Janet K. Miller
PO Box 2653
Tucson AZ 85702
janet@janetkmiller.com
Biography
I grew up in Santa Cruz, California and have a degree in Biology from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Burkina Faso, West Africa in the early eighties. In 1985 I moved to Tucson, Arizona where I worked as a truck driver, Food Bank program director, urban forester, training consultant, gardener, and farmer's market vendor. In 1993 I started to paint on glass and suddenly everything made sense.
I have no formal art training and started to paint in 1993. I am self taught. I lived and worked in West Africa for most of the early eighties and first encountered reverse glass painting in Senegal where it is a traditional art form known as peinture sous verre. I was enchanted by the paintings I brought back from Senegal. I loved the luminousness and depth that the glass gave the colors. For years I thought about trying to paint on glass, and finally tried it in 1993. I consider Babacar Lô, a Senegalese man who I have never met, my teacher. It is from his paintings I figured out this technique.
Reverse glass painting is an obscure process involving painting backwards on the wrong side of clear glass. The synergy of paint and glass has a depth and luminousness I've not seen in any other medium. I am often asked if it's tedious or frustrating working inside out and backwards, but I'm left-handed and dyslexic, and for me it feels natural and comfortable. It was very liberating to discover this technique. Rather than use traditional artist's materials, I use sign painter's enamels.
I'm inspired by food, maps, written and spoken language; travels in Yemen, Syria and the Sinai; my vividly remembered childhood and dreams, and the stark landscapes and extreme weather of the desert where I live. I go to the circus whenever I get the chance.
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