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Website: janetshaughnessyart.blogspot.com

Relationship status: married

College / University: Burren College of Art NUI Galway

Program: MFA

Graduation: 17 April 2005

Member type: Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?: Drawing

I am...: trying to live a simple, meaningful and non-material life.

About my artwork: I embrace the idea of drawing as a simple everyday human activity. I engage with the world around me, and draw connections between it and my own inner landscape, hunting for meaning and wholeness along the way. Meditation, ritual and repetition help me to get there.

Artists I like: Agnes Martin, Wolfgang Laib, the Abstract Expressionists

The centre of the artworld is: nowhere and everywhere

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It's not true that I stopped drawing ...

... but I stopped drawing well. For… Continue

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BSP No. 32

I can see that this might… Continue

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Bite-sized pieces

Here I begin work on a 60-… Continue

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Drawing from drawing

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It's true what they say about all the good stuff happening at the edges

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At 4:44pm on 9th July 2008, Germán Britch said…: Hi Janet!! thanks for your kind comments.

At 1:08pm on 26th June 2008, Roberto Tacconi said…: Hi, Janet good and beautiful works!! Thanks Roberto

At 6:54am on 12th May 2008, Yewy said…: Really like your drawings.
Also what was your experience at Burren art school

Cheers
Yewy

At 10:24pm on 11th May 2008, Germán Britch said…: Janet: Thank you for your concepts, I am encouraged to continue.
I don't know what is a wacon tablet, that's why i don't use it (obviusly), The drawings are made without any artifacts,
some graphite, and other digital.
best regards

At 1:23pm on 11th May 2008, Germán Britch said…: Great works!! Those Bushes... and trees..Gentle and powerful technical result.
Regards

At 1:59pm on 25th April 2008, David Howard said…: Janet, I just saw your comment on my blog that you made on the 20th of march. In answer to your question - the commentary printed from my blog, displayed next to each work was successful. I tried to get the visitors to see the input/output nature of how artists work. I received some good and valid feedback. I ran a blogging workshop as well - about 20 or so attended. Yes, I believe that more people visited my blogs and few started there own. Will check out your blog.

At 7:07pm on 27th March 2008, Marcia Tavernese said…: Janet, sorry for taking so long to respond to your message/ comment on my photo. Thank you so much for your positive feedback. With regards to you work: wow, talk about grace. Your work is beautiful and very skillfully executed. I especially like your drawings that are the first two that I'm viewing on your profile page. They look like drawings but as I'm viewing them closer they may also be intaglios? -hm not sure but they are beautiful!

At 2:13pm on 27th March 2008, Dan Green said…: Hey. I saw the show at Peter Blum, it was great to see some work 'in the flesh' as it were. I had to stay for a while to take it all in, my friends weren't so convinced and moved on though! Made me realise It will be a challenge to get all visitors to spend that time with my work. I was a bit confused about the curators decision to leave that gap on the rear wall though, Quite possibly to symbolise the change in direction, but very odd.

I am working with sound, although really trying to establish just what at the moment. I think its about that gap between noise and silence, or at least the idea of having somewhere quiet to stop and think, admitting that silence does not exist anywhere that a human is. I saw a really good piece by Kriss Martin at the Hoxton Square White Cube this week, one of those that makes you annoyed you didn't think of it first!

Ar you totally committed to drawing then? In which case how do you define drawing - at what point does a drawing become a sculpture or a painting? Big questions we are encouraged to deal with at uni! i think I shall be doing some drawing myself, but it is very likely to be grid based, although I intend to keep that impressionistic feel to it somehow!

At 12:23am on 25th March 2008, mike hinc said…: Janet - I'm flattered but if you can learn anything from me it is probably ''how not to''!!! All I do is paint the world as I see it and that's not always straightforward or inviting. But it's often darkly funny. And I'm glad you noticed the washed out light. We aim to subvert and disturb.

I'd protect your ''small Zen clearing'' with all the strength you can muster. Irony may be your best shield.
Check back as often as you like and stay in touch but your drawing skills are enviable and your work equistite.
You will find all you need in your work. Bonne chance!