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Artwork details
- Medium : Oil on Paper
- Other details : Artwork on fixed support. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 20x20in
About this artwork
In this painting, I wanted to capture the raw emotion and energy that can come from a single gesture. The sweeping lines and layered marks are meant to feel immediate and instinctive, reflecting movement, passion, and the physical act of painting itself. The bold contrasts of color heighten the sense of intensity, suggesting a place where thought and feeling collide. This piece is less about depicting a subject and more about expressing the moment…
— the rhythm, urgency, and freedom of the painted line.
Painting is done on Arches paper for oil paints. It is mounted on form core with a 2 inch matt ready for a frame.
Painting is done on Arches paper for oil paints. It is mounted on form core with a 2 inch matt ready for a frame.
Jan Fordyce
United States
Jan Fordyce is a Denver-based oil painter whose work explores the shifting, layered qualities of water as both subject and metaphor. Influenced by her background in fiber arts and photography, she uses traditional and non-traditional tools—shaper brushes, fine brushes, and glazes—to build intricate surfaces that echo the movement of light through liquid.
Her process involves layering vibrant oil colors to create compositions that invite viewers into a meditative space, where movement and stillness coexist. Each piece is a visual and emotional inquiry: what does water feel like? How can reflection hold both clarity and mystery?
Fordyce’s paintings do more than depict water—they evoke the experience of standing at its edge, watching light flicker across the surface, and feeling the quiet pull of something both intimate and vast.
Her process involves layering vibrant oil colors to create compositions that invite viewers into a meditative space, where movement and stillness coexist. Each piece is a visual and emotional inquiry: what does water feel like? How can reflection hold both clarity and mystery?
Fordyce’s paintings do more than depict water—they evoke the experience of standing at its edge, watching light flicker across the surface, and feeling the quiet pull of something both intimate and vast.