I'm Janet Sellers. I'm an artist for home, office and public settings - my work is varied, with winsome, energizing or relaxing vistas and colors. I'm the one who takes away your blank wall and I put in the window of color for your world. My work puts the freedom back into your day and your imagination with color and energizing, outdoorsy pictures.

The pigment and acrylic on canvas works are my unique blend of photography and painting montage. The photo portals a "reality" and the painterly additions carry you to the dreamway of the painting.

In the watercolors, I reveal rapid brushstrokes and intense color experiences.

".... and as for the small watercolors, they are my color haiku: the rapidly made brushstrokes with simple colors reveal a visual moment of living, seeing... and human vitality"

Sunlight for White and Blue, an Icy morning

Pigment on canvas, approx. 20" x 30"

From Laguna Beach and the Pacific Coast, to the Colorado Rockies, welcome the growing national and international presence of Janet Sellers' works of Fine Art.

"I work mainly in the greater west, from Colorado to Hawaii and the great Pacific.....I am probably one of the few artists actually born in Laguna Beach, with its fresh, ocean air, and I enjoy including that vitality in my work. There is always a fresh feeling about the colors and the composition because of the energy in my paintings, it is integrated throughout, and each color layer interacts with the others.







My work is expressive of light and color. In the mountains, the morning and evening light lasts a very long time. The light and color change is very gradual, and allows me to paint and develop the palette. Then, immortalized on the canvas, the colors reveal themselves, changing as light actually moves through the painting itself, and back out again to the surface of the oil paintings or the acrylic paintings. It's a kind of life force for the art.

Laguna New Year

Acrylic on canvas, 11 x 14

I make my art now in both Colorado and in Laguna Beach, acually along the whole Pacific Coast up to Carmel and beyond. San Francisco is also a favorite place of mine. I have close family near my Colorado and California studios and galleries. My big murals in Los Angeles are a part of the colossal mural movement, now a California historical treasure visited by thousands every year. I am so glad so many can view these works in perpetuity.

"... I do think my glazing technique is an art form few are willing to work to attain in terms of imagination and technical skill. Each painting can have 20 or even up to 100 layers of color and glazes- a lot of attention for one canvas. Working in opaques and transparencies reflects the complexity in the painting, and offers superb fidelity in the prints as well.

Tina in the '80's

11 x 14 acrylic with over 60 glazes

".....Sometimes I think of the simplicity of Japanese calligraphy or sumi painting, and the thought is so pure, so simple, and so full of meaning that I may pour over the image many times to savor it.

"..... Once, while living in Japan, I had the opportunity to live at a museum campus and "visit" the art every day. Some of the sumi paintings by a Zen priest made no sense to me and were deceptively simple... one day, suddenly, I saw the sweet flag iris in the blot of ink, and voila! The complicated came from the simple. "

Colorado Cool

Watercolor on paper, 5 x 7

Please enjoy the galleries! We've grouped the art work for you in a number of genres of my paintings. As you can see, the vision and personality of the works are multifaceted, with a pure sense of color and energy. I've been active in innovatiive Contemporary Fine Arts and Fine Arts Venues for over two decades, enthusiastically enriching the lives of thousands of art lovers.

Now, we are offering some very special art that is only available on our web site. We will be updating the gallery offerings daily, as works are sold. This is a wonderful opportunity to develop you own collection of art with JanetSellers.com.

I have a Fine Arts and Fine Family fun offering for image collections to subscribers as video-on-demand offerings.

My art and scenery imagery is a great way to display a new window on the lives of the Big Screen TV owners. No more big black plain blob on the wall: at Art Zone Studios and Janet Sellers Fine Arts we have screensavers and images that can stay up in lights! It's an enhancement to Big Screen ownership.

This season, at JanetSellers.com, we have new work and new exhibits for worldwide online exhibitions, with art for public and private collections.

Our online venue offers specific artworks for sale, rental, exhibition lease opportunities. Gallery shows maintain their own presence and availability, and we are glad to share those locations with you, too.

Janet's fine art murals are important cultural properties with the City of Los Angeles; her award-winning art works are shown and collected nationally and internationally. Her work has been honored for more than 100 shows in galleries, public and private exhibits, and Janet maintains an international presence in numerous galleries and on gallery and journalism sites on the World Wide Web.

Janet's Mini Cine Fine Art movies are available as streaming online movies worldwide. Janet Sellers is Director of the Monument School of Fine Arts and Art Zone Studios Productions at www.startmyart.com.

Janet also writes columns and articles for various publications on the subjects of fine art, how to recognize good fine art, making contemporary fine art, and enrichment in the fine arts.