Janna Watson

RECENT EXHIBITION: I Didn’t Eat The Garnish

June 8-29, 2023
340 Dundas Street West, Toronto

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Janna Watson's compelling abstract compositions use colour, line, and energetic brushstrokes to evoke emotion in the viewer. Her work possesses an elegant and powerful energy, created with a carefully balanced pairing of loose painting and gestural mark-making. Watson's paint strokes are feeling, sensing, emotive “moments” that wholly refer to this mark-making itself without retreating into the sometimes alienating world of pure abstraction. They are altogether honest and confident, vulnerable and evocative portraits of colour, texture, space, and movement.

Watson holds an honours degree in Drawing and Painting from the Ontario College of Art and Design, and since graduating has exhibited extensively across Canada and internationally in more than 30 solo exhibitions. Her work has appeared in notable public collections including those of TD Bank, CIBC, Nordstrom, Telus, the Ritz-Carlton, ONi ONE, the Soho Metropolitan Hotel, and Saks Fifth Avenue. In 2013, she was commissioned to create an impressive, 11 x 31-foot painting for the lobby of AURA, Canada’s tallest residential building.

Watson’s paintings circulate regularly at international fairs, including the Toronto International Art Fair, CONTEXT Art Miami, and in Seattle, where they were recently featured by Artsy in its list of “10 Works to Collect at the Seattle Art Fair.” Watson’s work has been covered by publications such as The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, NOW Magazine, and House & Home.

Janna Watson interview with Artist Decoded podcast

Janna Watson artwork featured in JW Marriott Vancouver

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72 X 96 in. - $19,900.00 CAD
Janna Watson artwork 'I Didn't Eat the Garnish' available at Bau-Xi Gallery Toronto, Ontario
72 X 72 in. - $15,800.00 CAD
Janna Watson artwork 'I am the Layered Cake' available at Bau-Xi Gallery Toronto, Ontario
60 X 60 in. - $11,900.00 CAD
Have Your Cake and Eat It!
I Enjoy Gazing Down Through The Layers of Myself
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58 X 80 in. - $14,500.00 CAD
Janna Watson artwork 'Birds Of Paradise' available at Bau-Xi Gallery Toronto, Ontario
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82 X 96 in. - $22,100.00 CAD
Sunsets and Backroads
40 X 60 in. - $9,100.00 CAD
Janna Watson artwork 'Skywriting' available at Bau-Xi Gallery Vancouver
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58 X 108 in. - $18,350.00 CAD
Night Water
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58 X 80 in. - $14,500.00 CAD
Janna Watson artwork 'Generously Drizzle Imagined Words And Worlds' available at Bau-Xi Gallery Toronto, Ontario
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Janna Watson artwork 'Film Noir, When a Woman Flips Open Her Compact…' available at Bau-Xi Gallery Toronto, Ontario
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60 X 60 in. - $11,900.00 CAD
Beginning, Present and Ellipses
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72 X 72 in. - $15,800.00 CAD
Janna Watson artwork 'The Dream Closed Its Lips' available at Bau-Xi Gallery Toronto, Ontario
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40 X 60 in. - $9,100.00 CAD
Janna Watson artwork 'Surfed Through My Mind' available at Bau-Xi Gallery Toronto, Ontario
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40 X 60 in. - $9,100.00 CAD
Janna Watson artwork 'Salty Attitude' available at Bau-Xi Gallery Toronto, Ontario
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36 X 48 in. - $6,900.00 CAD
Janna Watson artwork 'Strange Blue Moonlight' available at Bau-Xi Gallery Toronto, Ontario
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36 X 48 in. - $6,900.00 CAD
Janna Watson artwork 'All of the Things I Like About You' available at Bau-Xi Gallery Toronto, Ontario
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48 X 48 in. - $8,700.00 CAD
Janna Watson artwork 'Piano Parts of Everyday Space' available at Bau-Xi Gallery Toronto, Ontario
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60 X 60 in. - $11,900.00 CAD
Janna Watson artwork 'Flick Your Eyes On Me, Off Of Me' available at Bau-Xi Gallery Toronto, Ontario
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48 X 48 in. - $8,700.00 CAD
Organized Cabinet
54 X 54 in. - $10,400.00 CAD
Janna Watson artwork 'A Whisper Agains a Curvy Surface' available at Bau-Xi Gallery Vancouver
48 X 48 inches - $8,700.00 CAD
Strawberry Moon
36 X 36 in. - $5,400.00 CAD
Practice in Wu-Wei III
60 X 60 in. - $11,900.00 CAD
Janna Watson artwork 'Practice in Wu-Wei I' available at Bau-Xi Gallery Vancouver
48 X 36 in. - $6,900.00 CAD
Practice in Wu-Wei II
10 X 8 in. - $20.00 CAD
Janna Watson Artwork | Bright, colouful, expressive, gestural abstract paintings inspired by emotions.
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