About the Artist

JANICE M. DRUIAN

www.druianstudios.com

Janice Druian, award winning, Central Oregon oil painter is best known for her landscapes that capture the beauty of the isolated parts of the west & more recently she has been exploring "The Beauty of Solitude," quiet interiors, nocturnes...moody landscapes.

ARTIST STATEMENT

“Ars est longa;vita brevis”  “…Art is long; live is brief”

With this famous Latin phrase in mind, my goal is to spend as much time painting as possible.

I have been influenced by many contemporary artists-- artists of the early 20th Century, recent landscape painters and those painters that deconstruct landscape into a few elements.

I have studied with some of the best contemporary plein air and  landscape artists: John Poon, Richard McKinley, Ken Auster, Morgan Samuel Price, Bob Rohm,  and my mentor and personal friend, Jean LeGassick.

We live in a noisy world...my work strives to bring some peace and quiet to this madding crowd.  My favorite times are those minutes after sunrise, and before sunset where the color is magical and captivating.  My interior paintings strive also to capture the solitude of quiet empty rooms...sometimes a reflective quiet and sometimes mysterious.