Janei Folz’ expressive canvases articulate the sensory perceptions she takes from the vibrant colors, emotive expressions, and divergent shapes of humanity and nature relative to her life and spiritual experiences. Outdoor motifs, whether all natural or accentuated by man, and the human condition within those habitats, especially move her. Janei's work reflects deep love of light and the delight she takes in assessing the dancing and visceral interplay of brightness and shade. |
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Janei's passion for creating art began at Saint Mary's Academy in Denver, and led to degrees in fine arts from the Loretto Heights College of Colorado, and Colorado and Troy universities. Her world travels, studies and life experiences have brought revelation and inspiration from distinguished artists across the globe, including mentoring from master painters in the Philippines, Germany and New York. Janei’s contemporary compositions also reflect the emotional values informed by her years of concurrent engagement in other professions. As a lifetime volunteer member, leader and patron of local clubs of the international General Federation of Women’s Clubs, she has persistently faced challenges of how to organize and support efforts to remediate local social and cultural inequities. Janei has been especially moved by observing the horrendous personal consequences of domestic violence and the national depravity of women trafficking. After a career of senior resource management within one of the largest U.S. federal agencies, she is empathetic to the sense of impotence and depression faced by individuals resisting and contending against large monolithic institutions. Further, eleven years as proprietor of a small bed and breakfast inn on the U.S. East Coast exposed her to a spectrum of other people’s views that she had not previously encountered. Emotional insights from all of these life experiences interact as each painting emerges from Janei’s brush. Janei’s paintings reside in private collections across the U.S. and in Europe. |
Lady On A Bar Stool |
Although many of her contemporary works were created while living in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, Janei recently returned to her Western roots, moving residence and studio to the foot of the Rampart Range of the Rocky Mountains, in the shadow of Pikes Peak. Here, in the Colorado Springs community, she continues to paint and instruct—with yet another whole new vista of inspiration.. |