Janeen Heath
July 26 – September 7, 2024
Solo Exhibition on the PAL Wall (2F)
Come meet the artist at the Firehouse Arts Center on Saturday, August 10th from 1-3pm!
The Firehouse Arts Center is excited to welcome artist, Janeen Heath, onto the Pleasanton Art League (PAL) Wall from July to September 2024. Primarily working in wood-based media, this presentation will be comprised of approximately 10 of the artist’s unique works.
Artist Statement
“When I created the artist series labels for Wente Vineyards, I continued my music theme with various instrumental art on the labels. Wente also commissioned me to decorate a wine barrel which started my love of burning and painting wood.
I use every medium that suits my fancy or inspires me. It changes from day-to-day and moment-by-moment. I may have 10 projects at one time! I may only complete one or two, and I am not afraid of failing. I just keep going!”
Janeen Heath
Janeen Heath is a lifelong Northern California resident and currently lives in Danville, California with her husband and best friend of 48 years, Tomm and their two rescue dogs.
She was introduced to art and music at an early age by her father, Guido Ferraro, who was an accomplished oil painter and guitar player. Unfortunately, he died when Heath was only 10 years old, but the gift he left her was a passion for art and music.
Heath rejects being labeled as a specific type of artist. She relates more to the description of being a constant “experimental and inconsistent artist” as she loves to search and discover diverse mediums and textures to use in her artwork.
Her love of the freedom of letting paint and mediums flow from her mind in a meditative state is shared with the love of fine details. One can clearly see the perseverance shown in some of her very detailed paintings and works. She is not limited to painting; she sculpts in clay and enjoys pyrography as seen in her beautiful guitar art and her version of pointillism, which is inspired by aboriginal art. Whether she is cooking or creating art, her method and motto is “no recipes, no rules and plenty of loud music!”
In 2020 Janeen was commissioned by Wente Vineyards to create five artist series wine labels. She showed how art, music and wine are intertwined. She explains “Grapes are the instruments and wine is the music.”
“Music is my drive! My thing! I am a mediocre guitar player, but it drives me into this passion for creating visual art.” When she is not painting or burning wood her other passions include promoting animal welfare, playing guitar, listening to music (especially Grateful Dead and Bluegrass), camping in Lake Tahoe, skeet shooting and hiking with her husband and the love of their two rescue dogs.
“If they say I am inconsistent let them say it, for it is true,
because inconsistency is a part of living.”
-Errol Flynn
Artist Website
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Wednesdays & Thursdays: 10am-5pm
Fridays: 10am-6pm
Saturdays: 10am-3pm
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