Janet Mazenier

Janet Mazenier is an artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau who locates her practice as engaging with the foundational tension in contemporary painting of realism and abstraction.  Her work investigates the terrain on which we stand, her complex work declaring its material enquiry and visual language with her chosen media comprising charcoal, dry pigments, oil paint and beeswax medium.  This media contributes to what is an inherently experimental approach to each artwork, their material surfaces acting as a kind of portal into the cognitive site of the encounter responsible for their existence.

Recent group shows include the Estuary Art Awards people’s choice (candidate) at Uxbridge, The Places we Tread at Space Gallery, Whanganui, Spaces of Synchronicity, Uxbridge, Is It Real, Is It True, Flagstaff Gallery,  Love Your Maunga, Maungauika/North Head, The River Runs Deep, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland.  Janet completed her Master of Fine Arts (First Class Hons.) at Elam, University of Auckland in 2021.