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This image of an ink drawing was recently re-discovered in my collection of macro photos. Why does it speak to me still? Is there a certain tender innocence evoked?

Some of my photo-art is now available at http://wallpaperswide.com/ where you can download free photos. This WallpapersWide.com site provides easy ways to download various resolutions, whether it be your desktop, laptop, mobile, tablet or iPad. They use pics contributed by artists and photographers from around the world.
Since these are intended as background on computer and mobile devices, I deliberately designed many of my pics to lend themselves to having icons displayed at the edges. My name is artistunigue on this site. You could also search using keywords like symmetry, artistic.
Basically, I enjoy making my art accessible to anyone. This is one new way to do that. Am planning on using another computer wallpaper site soon that may be more to my liking; it seems to post less of others' video-art type pics.

Regardless of what this new year brings, I want to stay focused on what is beautiful and true. For me, one way to do that is to create art. Here is one of my 2019 creations. It is built up from repeated photos of the Fort Bragg Botanical Garden.

Season's greetings to all! On the free wallpaper page, I have added a photo that you can download for your computer or laptop background.
This photo-art piece uses a pic that I took of raindrops on heavenly bamboo berries.

Occasionally, new wallpaper photos are made available for you to download at https://www.janefusek.com/free-wallpaper-images
The first addition is Catalpa Symmetry; also now the new Homepage photo.

There have been some new wallpaper images added. Here is one of them. To download, go to: Free wallpaper images.

To download some photos to use on your computer screen, please go to the Free wallpaper page.
I welcome feedback on the photos and on the sizing of them.

In the "Land of the Aartvarkians" piece, I added a whole layer of transparent cutouts to a painting done last year, with my words added. I call this revision the "Aartvarkian Primer".
Aartvarkia is an imaginary place, with its own cryptic written language. These glyphic characters are rather mysterious. Since I don't know exactly where they came from, I made up this "Aartvarkia" world as a way of explaining their origin.



Below is a detail.

It's been years since I worked with clay, and am so glad that I bungled my way into doing a new (albeit small) piece. I had no idea at the beginning what this would turn out to be.
In the end, it appears to have become a creature from another time, another place. I think it is sad, as it hears about how the earth used to be such a beautiful planet, until the effects of negligent over-industrialization tipped the scales.

There are numerous media to use, and I am featuring now a detail of a diptych that was created with 90 minute sheet-rock mud, acrylic paint and handmade paper on canvas. The 90 minute mud lines I call 3D doodles. Quite fun to do!

The great thing about making art is that it inevitably leads to new and unexpected results. This photo-art piece, which can be printed on aluminum, is a recent adventure. The picture on the bottom is a detail.

Have been experimenting with using photos of windows in combination with photo-art. Here is the first iteration.

A haiku that I wrote for the new year:
This year and always
May joy and peace fill your life -
Light over darkness.

I have a couple of 12" x 12" prints on aluminum for sale. One (see photo below) at the Chroma Gallery in Santa Rosa, and one at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts.

Even though the official Open Studio weekends are over, I am available to show my art via appointments. Please use my Contact page to get a hold of me. I love showing my art!

Due to the awful fires in northern California, the Sonoma County Art Trails event will now be pushed back. New dates are October 21-22 & October 28-29. As several artists in the program have lost everything, I want to provide a way for folks to contribute to a local fund that can help them.
Hopefully, art (from the heart) can help our community heal.

My studio is open via the Sonoma County Art Trails the weekends of October 14-15 and 21-22, from 10 am to 5 pm. See http://sonomacountyarttrails.org/ for the catalog; I am #84 on the map. Come see my photo-art printed on aluminum AND some of my recent paintings. There will be a free drawing for a door prize!
Pictured here is a detail of a photo-art piece called "Piles of edges", printed on aluminum.

I will be participating in this year's Sonoma County Art Trails, October 14-15 and 21-22 weekends, 10 am to 5 pm. This is a high quality Open Studio event! See info at http://sonomacountyarttrails.org/
I will have my photo-art printed on aluminum; at very reasonable prices. Since these pieces are prints, I can keep the cost down.
This piece is created from macro photos of ink drawings on paper. Because they are close-up photos, you can see the ink and paper magnified.

After years of experimenting, learning and producing numerous portfolios of digital photo-art, I have come to a new beginning. Using photos of scraps of my art done on paper, I have discovered an exciting format for many future works. This first one features close-up photos of ink drawings done on paper. When blown up to at least 24" x 36", the print on aluminum is quite riveting.

One of my questions: how to portray at least a small sense of infinity in my photo-art pieces? In "Infinite inspiration from nature", I discovered one possibility. As if in a set of mirrors, part of the image is repeated in all corners. The imagination can take it further.
In the center, is a group of seed pods that fell from some kind of tree. Nature's forms are always fascinating and amaze the viewer with its never-ending variety. This whole piece is yet another ode to the natural world, in both its small and large complexities.

Consistency is only valuable in terms of an artist's commitment to an honest and open process; one that includes experimenting and learning new things.
Here are two of new pieces which were very much experiments. One is titled "Nocturnal visitors", the other is titled "In nature's temple".