Strange Times

Janet Broughton

Janet Broughton constructs landscapes from the intersection of memory and sight, blending original photography with digital brushwork to map the shifting terrain of the subconscious. This piece captures a moment where the natural world feels deeply known yet unsettlingly distant, suspended in the quiet tension of a dream.

Strange Times — framed, leaning against the wall
Janet Broughton

Strange Times

Janet Broughton constructs landscapes from the intersection of memory and sight, blending original photography with digital brushwork to map the shifting terrain of the subconscious. This piece captures a moment where the natural world feels deeply known yet unsettlingly distant, suspended in the quiet tension of a dream.

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The Uncanny Quiet of a Familiar Horizon

Part of the Landscapes of Dreams series, this work begins with the foundational reality of a grass field and wide open skies, only to submerge them under deliberate layers of texture. Broughton uses a digital process to apply brushwork that softens the edges of the physical world, creating a visual space where the familiar becomes slightly strange. The result is a composition that feels less like a specific geographic location and more like a psychological state, where nature's nuances are filtered through a hazy, introspective lens.

The interplay of textured color overlays creates a sense of serene solitude, yet there is an underlying weight to the atmosphere that hints at a quiet melancholic despair. By blending organic forms with artificial digital marks, Broughton explores the relationship between humanity and nature, suggesting that our perception of the vast natural landscapes around us is always colored by our internal mental health and wellbeing. It is a study of the unknown existing within the known, inviting a slow, meditative observation.

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