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Limited-edition
giclee prints on canvas are available for all images,
from $300 -$650, depending on size. Please contact me for more
information.
Buy
my book! A full-color 46-page book of the paintings and story shown
here, now available for $20. Order now.
luanastauffer@yahoo.com
My paintings arrive,
by invitation, from the unconscious stream. Like dreams or Tarot
cards, with layered meanings, these playful images ask the viewer to
spend some time, and to engage in dialogue with them. The stories
you see may be far different from mine.
I make spontaneous marks and scribbles in purple paint
on the blank canvas, then begin to fill in colors. After several
sessions of joyful, mindless painting, an image suggests itself. As
in the process of recalling a dream, I take a thread and pull it
gently, until a whole picture coalesces, and a story begins to
unfold. It's a process I enjoy, both for the surprise, and the
personal meaning each painting may contain.
I grew up in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, attended
Mount Holyoke College, and graduated with Honors in Studio Art. I
lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for twenty years, developing a
career in Advertising, then relocated to the Oregon coast in 1989,
to focus on my art. Known then by my full name, Jane Luana Stauffer,
my landscape work in pastel and acrylic received wide exposure in
galleries and juried exhibitions. I was awarded solo shows at the
Coos Art Museum, Oregon State University, and the Governor's Office,
as well as inclusion in the Northwest Poets and Artists Calendar. My
work is in private collections world-wide.
In 2000 I moved to the Big island of Hawaii. After a
two year sabbatical, the series of paintings shown here began to
emerge. Like postcards from my own inner journey, they provide clues
and insight into aspects of my life which may have remained hidden
to me, were it not for the wonder of artistic expression.
Mahalo for visiting, and aloha!
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