Fluid Art

Before I encountered Taoist philosophy, my nature already knew it.

I have always preferred art that is abstract, unconventional, and free. My life has carried more spontaneity than most. Following directions for the sake of directions never resonated with my spirit. I learned early to trust my intuition and follow it as life opened itself to me.

That is why fluid art found me.

There is nothing predictable or reliable about it. It has its own way. To the extent that you follow that way, the process unfolds as it should. In Taoism, this is Wu Wei — effortless action, moving with the nature of things rather than against them.

Each piece in this collection reflects that instinct. To follow the way of things and see where they lead. To trust my own nature and ability to adapt along the way.

-Jan

UNSETTLED Size: 10x10 | Medium: Acrylic pour | Technique: Dirty pour and hair dryer | Price: $70 The Tao does not ask us to find peace by avoiding turbulence. It asks us to move through it without resistance. This was an early piece — red and blue in
IGNITION Size: 10x10 | Medium: Acrylic pour | Technique: Hair dryer | Price: $90 Fire is the most yang of elements. It ascends, transforms, and does not ask permission. This piece began at center and refused to stay there — red and orange pushing out
WU JI Size: 10x10 | Medium: Acrylic pour | Technique: Hair dryer | Price: $90 I set out to paint yin and yang. The paint had other ideas. Black and white moved toward each other and kept moving until the boundary between them dissolved. What remained
INTERDEPENDENCE Size: 10x10 | Medium: Acrylic pour | Technique: Dirty pour and tilt | Price: $80 Nothing exists alone. Water needs earth. Earth needs water. We need both, and have been given them without condition. This piece was made as an homage to
THE UNNAMED Size: 10x10 | Medium: Acrylic pour | Technique: Tilt | Price: $80 The Tao Te Ching opens with this: the Tao that can be named is not the eternal Tao. This piece resists naming. Gray moves through white moves through black, and then withou
TEN THOUSAND SUNS Size: 10x10 | Medium: Acrylic pour | Technique: Ring pour and hair dryer | Price: $95 In the beginning there is only fire. The Tao Te Ching speaks of ten thousand things emerging from the One — this is that moment, before the coolin
CANYON AT DUSK Size: 10x10 | Medium: Acrylic pour | Technique: Tilt | Price: $75 The last light finds the canyon walls before dark takes them. Pink and orange hold the warmth of the day while black threads through like shadow falling into stone. The
WITHOUT FORM Size: 10x10 | Medium: Acrylic pour | Technique: Soda bottle spin | Price: $75 The Tao Te Ching tells us the great form has no shape. I set out to paint a flower. What arrived instead was something older than flowers — a spiral that knew
YIN POOLS Size: 10x10 | Medium: Acrylic pour | Technique: Tilt | Price: $75 Yin is the shaded side of the mountain. Still, cool, receptive, heavy with its own kind of knowing. The dark pools in this piece hold their ground while teal and copper move
THE SOURCE Size: 10x10 | Medium: Acrylic pour | Technique: Tilt | Price: $95 Before the river, before the delta, before the sea — there is the source. Cobalt and copper meet here the way water meets earth at the beginning of things. This one arrived
YIELDING Size: 10x10 | Medium: Acrylic pour | Technique: Dirty pour and tilt | Price: $75 In the Tao Te Ching, water is the great teacher. It yields, flows to the low places, and wears away stone without force. This piece asked for softness and I gav
TEEMING Size: 10x10 | Medium: Acrylic pour | Technique: Tilt | Price: $80 The Tao never runs out. It generates without effort, produces without plan, and returns to itself without loss. This piece has that quality — red threading through green and te
NEEDED WILD Size: 12x12 | Medium: Acrylic pour | Technique: Hair dryer | Price: $85 Zhuangzi taught that we need a little rascal in us. The fully domesticated life closes off something essential. This piece was born from images of wild cats — gorgeou

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