"Works in Pastel" Exhibition by Janet Buell
Clare Arts Office in conjunction with Cultúrlann Sweeney Library Gallery is delighted to present ‘works in pastel” an art exhibition by Janet Buell.
Janet paints almost exclusively with pastels. Since 2020, she’s studied with American Master Pastellist Alain Picard. Janet is a juried member of the Pastel Guild of Europe and is a juried associate of the Pastel Society of America.
Janet’s work has been featured at the Clare Museum in Ennis. She’s had two solo shows at the Kinvara Area Visual Artists gallery. Janet also teaches others how to paint with pastels — most recently at the KAVA Plein Air Festival 2024.
This past summer, she was part of QUARTET, a group exhibition at the Kinvara Courthouse Gallery. The show featured lots of hands-on art-making for gallery-goers — attracting a record crowd of almost 1000 visitors in ten days.
Janet loves painting with pastels and In many ways, feels like an ambassador for this often misunderstood medium.
She finds the highly pigmented personalities of each stick very engaging. She likes their immediacy - nothing comes between her and the ‘toothy’ pastel paper she uses. She paints anything that strikes her fancy. Her daily quest is to capture for the viewer the movement, colour, textures, and humour of her own visual adventure.
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