Hello! Greetings!
I’m Janice Tanton – Full Time Human Being, Artist, Wife, Mom, Breast Cancer Survivor…and lots of other things!
“What interests me?”
“What gets my goat?”
“How do I see the world on any given day?”
You’ll find that here.
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I like to learn, and usually I learn the most from those whose opinion is quite different than mine, so please…contribute, debate, question and be CURIOUS, but don’t be mean.
This blog and the articles here serve to provide some of the things I’ve learned and experienced through my life as an artist. My work has many things to say, and crosses cultures, seeking to understand and grow with my fellow human beings.
Creatives are sometimes honoured, feared or ridiculed…and at the same time highly valued for their ability to see things that others do not. I see a portion of my job in this lifetime and on this blog as trying to articulate the creative mind, process and creation.
It’s quite unedited.
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My Dad used to say:
“Do something that scares you EVERY day.”
That’s really stuck with me. I try to live like that & I challenge YOU to do something that scares you each and every day. That’s how we grow and learn. That’s how we understand our ultimate capability and capacity as human beings…..and that’s how we become agents of change in this world.
I love interesting conversation on meaningful subjects and am always open to learning new things, hearing the opinions of others and finding new ways to relate. Check out the links to topics of discussion on the right side or top of this page. Get involved in this blog. It’s as much yours as it is mine, and you are…in a sense, part of my artistic enquiry into our human condition. The thing I love about blogs is the interaction. I want to hear from you! Comment away! I will not, however, respond to untruths, slander or engage in debate that is hurtful. I like for this space to be a learning community, filled with affirmative, intelligent and informed discussion. No trolls or keyboard warriors welcome here.
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I am a mother. I am an artist. I am a Full Time Human Being with feelings and flaws and I am ready to change things and be vocal and “out there” about it. I care about the human race, and I strive to understand it through my art.
That’s about the most important “About Me” that you might ever need to know.
Peace.
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Hi Janice,
I want to say thank you for your blog and your honesty. I am a perpetual student (apparently golidlock-ing my way through life as I swap from one institution to another). I am finally deciding to make a website/blog/portfolio thing to try and make sense of the work that I am doing, and am finding your clear and undeniably personal approach really useful. Thank you, I look forward for what’s to come!
Hi Zoe. Thanks for droppping by and saying hello. See you around the blog, and good luck with your online endeavours!
Hey,
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Hello again Janice, our paths crossed briefly years ago as I tried in vain to create an event for a mental heath not-for-profit in Medicine Hat. You where not the undoing of it and I have visited your art works and activities sporadically over the intervening years on-line as I strive to do daily good things. My regret is not seeing that family dynamic of a shared all age group family multi-discipline art form you envisioned. I challenge you to keep your core goodness spirit and allow it to the surface more often for us mere mortals to witness. I thank you for your participation on this revolving barnyard and hope it doesn’t flood ya boots too often. Me? At 62 I’m not sure what I want to be when I grow up but enjoying planting, growing, witnessing and sampling the buffet of life.
Hello Stephen. Of course I remember. Sorry that it never came together. We do hold Community Fusion project sessions every now and then, but of course now, things have to slow down with interaction of people required for that prices. Perhaps in the future, new version of interactive, inter-generational/cultural masked event. Don’t grow up.
Hey Janice, I find your blog to be interesting and approachable. I will be honest, I am a visual art student and I wish to be more part of the art world like blogging, sharing my art… well a profile. The first blog that appeared to me was yours. And it has really cleared my mind and inspired me into learning how to put myself, my art into words. THANK YOU SO MUCH, LOVE YOUR ART!!!
Sheyla- Thank you for your thoughtful comment. I hope that art school isn’t too hard on you! I would encourage you to create your own blog where you can express yourself and bring out your own voice. 💗
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Hello Janice,
I was wondering if you use Photoshop brushes in some of your artwork? I am currently enrolled in Graphic Design and need to find artists who use it. I love your artwork, so I want to show it and link your blog.
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