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                    Janet Strayer's art is both introspective and expansive. It adores color and contrast, and plays with
                    shapes and concepts. She works in a range of different styles, from the playfully imaginative and
                    abstract-expressive to more representational modes of figurative art and landscape. Diverse
                    methods include painting (acrylics and oils), drawing (graphite, ink, charcoal), pastels, traditional
                    printmaking (etching, drypoint, linocuts), and modern digital image-making. She also constructs
                    mixed media and three-dimensional works using clay, natural and found objects. An underlying
                    current throughout her art is the inherent animism of all things as well as an exploration of
                    transformations in the inner and outer worlds we inhabit.Her works convey a lyrical responsiveness
                    to changing shapes, moods, and ideas -- the surprises, delights, and curiosities of being alive.

                    Janet Strayer lives in Vancouver and Saturna Island, B.C. (where her Insights Studio is located).
                    Her formal education includes degrees specializing in art history and a doctorate in psychology.
                   
                    For many years she has worked as a university professor, researcher, and consultant in
                    psychology. She has lived and worked in Canada, the US, Europe, Mexico, South America, and
                    Southeast Asia. Her studio art training includes the degree program at Emily Carr Institute of
                    Art and Design as well as the Advanced Art Institute (Capilano) in Vancouver, the Academy of
                    Realist Art in Toronto, Instituto Allende and Bellas Artes in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

                    Her work has been exhibited in art galleries in Vancouver and the Fraser valley and is in
                    private collections in Canada, the US, and Mexico.