Artist: Janet Treby
Title: Desire
Edition Size: 150
Medium: Prints - Silkscreen on Canvas
Image Size: 14" x 36.5"
About the Art: Creativity is essential for my existence, a primal need that has been with me ever since I had consciousness. It is perhaps the only tangible direct link with our higher selves – the real us rather than the little bit we know as flesh and blood. Maybe through art it is possible to touch the eternal for a second. My work is essentially figurative; I try to create an intimate mood using colour and the figure or figures. I use models a lot of the time, and sometimes I see different things in the models; perhaps certain vulnerabilities or strengths that others don’t see. There has also always been a strong feeling of narrative in my work and in some pieces it is more obvious than in others. I like the images to be left open so that the viewer can put their own interpretation on things. I simply try to create an environment which people can hopefully relate to, be it fantasy or more realistic.

I paint a lot of nudes as I feel that the body holds experiences, which even if the figure has its back to you it tells you its own story at that particular moment in time. We all pick up on that story on a subconscious level. So it‘s like reading a novel when looking into a painting. You see the painting and snatches of the artist all at once. It’s like laying yourself open without saying a word. It all holds memory – which creates atmosphere which speaks to everyone who looks at that painting.