Janiece Murray

I am a student of traditional techniques and arts including: gilding, geometry and painting with handmade watercolors. Many traditional arts are connected to spiritual and religious beliefs, I also strive to include and reflect my beliefs in my work. My studies with Wulf Barsch at Brigham Young University led me to  learn from craftspeople and master artists at The Prince’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts and obtain a Masters in Traditional Art. I now work to find the best ways to incorporate what I have learned into my own practice as an artist.​
Colors, shapes and numbers all have a meaning which can deepen and enrich a piece, I am intrigued and fascinated by symbolism and the wide range of information a single symbol can convey. As an artist and a visual person, I love the possibility for a visual language in works of art through symbolism and the ability for those to be subtle and even subliminal. It’s easy to take things for granted, to see only what’s on the surface, but a symbol etc. can make you feel or think of home, for example, without your realizing how or why. In my watercolors I build up layers of color to get the desired effect, similarly layers of symbolism can be built up to give a piece meaning.