ARTWORK:
Jana Vodesil-Baruffi (Czech/Australian, born 1957)
Musing, 2023
PAINTING: Oil on canvas
76 x 101 cm
Private collection
Jana Vodesil-Baruffi is a West Australian based fine artist and art educator grown up and schooled in the best traditions of Europe. Her realistic portraits, landscapes and fantastic realism works have won prestigious state and national competitions and sell both nationally and abroad.
After finishing five years training as an Interior Designer, she escaped communist Czech Republic in 1981 and arrived in Perth penniless but ready to work and create her own destiny. She was struck by the freedom of life and immediately set about the process of acquiring as much knowledge about art as possible. Receiving tuition in private studios of various artists and at technical college, she gained a variety of skills.
In 1984 Jana held her first solo exhibition followed by many others. Her creativity flowed from there back into interior design, and from 1989 to 2001 she ran ‘Jana’s Interiors’, which specialized in decorative work, murals, trompe l’oeils, stone and marble finishes in some of the most prestigious residential and commercial buildings in Perth, Singapore and Europe, Working with the best designers in Western Australia.
In 2001 Jana stepped off the ladder/scaffold and have since opened a studio in Perth, Western Australia, to concentrate on her own art practice. She also established very successful art classes, teaching in the mediums of oil, acrylics, pastels, charcoal and pencil. In 2010 she opened Metamorphosis Art Gallery/Studio to work and display her own and other artists’ work. For ten years she ran Jana’s Art Tours, taking her students around the globe to paint and experience different cultures.
Jana is a founding member of the Contemporary Australian Surrealists Movement in Western Australia as well as a member of West Australian portrait artists. Her art is exhibited in her studio-gallery Metamorphosis Art Gallery.
