Janet Read
Ocean as Vessel
- Publisher
- The Robert McLaughlin Gallery
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2007
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780921500810
- Publish Date
- Jan 2007
- List Price
- $12
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Description
Janet Read is a painter with an unusual mastery of colour relationships whose non-figurative canvases express a profound, complex, and yet natural connection between the sensible world and the world only invented through contemplative exercise. Her work is also informed by a mature philosophical understanding and an acute social conscience but not in any overt polemical way; she prefers the meaning of her experience and thought to rise naturally from an intuitive base in colour and form rather than from explicit image or symbol.