JANIS GOODMAN

(b. 1956 London, UK)

Janis Goodman’s etchings depict the interplay between the urban environment and the forces of nature. The theme of regeneration, runs through all of Janis’ work. She portrays the tension between the manmade environment and the anarchic forces of nature and entropy. This is shown through a series of relationships: the portrayal of plants overwhelming abandoned buildings, the geometric precision of greenhouses altered by the growth within, and the wild energy of birds forcing space for themselves despite peoples’ best efforts to thwart them.

The pictures are small narratives in which different elements meet and interact. She describes her choice of subject matter as “visceral” a gut feeling that this is the view, the collection of shapes, which she wishes to reassemble. She enjoys the act of repetition but also likes to stop and reconfigure. She hopes to avoid sentimentality but focuses on the quirky and irregular.

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