Janet O'Neal Sold at Auction Prices

JANET O'NEAL:
Most important I have found that my journey to self-knowledge has provided me with inspiration for my most successful art. Should I attempt to provide insight for other artists, I would suggest that they look within and the work will come.

My earliest interest in creating began in my very early years about the age of six with an overwhelming attraction to color. I always felt that I could touch color. Color had vibrations I could feel - both physically and spiritually. Now those relationships and tensions among colors help me create emotional statements. Using color allows me to create art that is alive.

As I began seriously working in art again in 1986, the work was traditional realism, and I worked mostly in watercolor. However, several years later I began working in mixed media with a special interest in the texture of painted surfaces. Quickly, my work moved into the realm of abstract and non-objective art. Further exploration led me into printmaking, which included monotypes, collagraphs, and multimedia printmaking. My art now is moving more toward the third dimension

As a twenty-eight year veteran of the art scene, O’Neal’s work has received critical acclaim in festivals and exhibitions throughout the country. Prestigious art galleries and top publishing companies represent her, including the publisher Editions Limited, one of the top four publishers of fine art in the country.
Her works include paintings, mixed media assemblages, photography and sculpture; however she is most famous for her energetic abstract works and multimedia assemblages. Years of painting experience and experiments with texture and collage processes merged with the found objects and became a new exciting form of art that carried with it a new voice for the artist. The work moved from the abstract to this form of art that was more of a commentary on life itself and the spiritual side of it. In the last several years has moved back into the Abstract with large multi- dimensional, vividly colored abstracts with deep texture and cast resin additions and encaustics.

Some of the most current work revolves around photography, traditional digital photographs and mixed media works where photography is the dominant media. She has traveled to Israel, Jamaica and India the past several years photographing people and places for her new art. She has won 2nd place and two honorable mentions in the prestigious Georgia O’Keefe Museum’s International Photography Competition, First Place in the 2014 New Mexico Magazine’s Photography competition,2nd place in The International WPGA Pollux Photography Awards and is a finalist in the Julia Margaret Cameron Photography Competition. Her work will be exhibited in the 3rd Annual Biennial of Photography in Spain 2014.

Janet’s continuing desire to experiment fuels an excitement about her future. Experimentation has been the reason her work continues to evolve, keeping an ever growing following of clients and corporations collecting her art.

“My work as an artist is intrinsically connected with my life and personal growth”