Photos of Janet Keen by Jing Pan at the Tree Trust Japanese Garden, Rotorua in Autumn

Melting Moments1.

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Lesson Plan

Which one do you like best. Write to jkeen@clear.net.nz and tell me. 
 
Go with a friend in the morning to a country location and take shots of each other by moving your camera quickly. 
See what beautiful melting moments you can have.

Cracked thermal Earth, double Exposure Photography, Rotorua New Zealand, Janet Keen Fine Art Photographer.

These abstract, fine art prints are originals by Janet Keen. 

 No two are the same.

Embedded in them are images of people.

You can have your own special abstract image with silhouettes of yourself or your family or pet embedded

They are explorations of Humanbeings being part of the landscape, dissolving into it and working with it, instead of dominating it. 

They are images that ask us to be gentle on the earth and to treasure it and let it breathe. 

Colours are designed to go with your decor and favourite colour scheme

Notifications by galleries in New Zealand to exhibit my photographic Fine Art work are welcome 

All images are signed and dated on the back

All Photographs are copyrite

You can have works with as little or many cracks as you like, there's something quite fragile about cracks and in their way they can be quite haunting and beautiful. Ambiguity makes things more mysterious, less obvious, more intelligent and interesting. 
Abstract work allows to the viewer to bring their interpretations into the work, which is just as valid. 
 I am in love with abstracts. 

Overseas queries welcome

Write to me at jkeen@clear.net.nz and tell me which one you like best. 
See more on my Janet Keen Artist facebook page


Haiku with double 

shags silhouetted  
waiting for the mist to clear 
fishermen whisper

chinese girl takes aim
mist hiding her face from me
chinese whispering 

there are three girls here
or is it  one girl ghosted
can't tell in the gloom 

cracked earth engulfs her
she disappears like the mist
chinese whispering


What is haiku? A three lined poem of Japanese derivation. 
Often talking about a moment in time. 
Sometimes having syllable cont of 5, 7, 5, but not necessarily. 

Go out, take some photos and write some haiku to them.
 Send me your results. Good luck, 
See how happy you feel when you have finished because writing haiku is like meditating.  

Creative Quote of the Day
“Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is 

the deep breath of life.” 

 
― Santōka Taneda, Mountain Tasting: Haiku and Journals of Santoka Taneda
 


All photographs for sale. 
Price depending on size. 
Phone 3463435 or email jkeen@clear.net.nz for details. 

Kuirau Park, Rotorua Double Exposure Photos with Jing, taken by Janet Keen, Art Photographer.

 

My friend Jing and I often go on Photographic Safari's together.

  

This was one Autumn morning in Kuirau Park, Rotorua

I first discovered this special, secret spot  when I was riding my bike with my husband

 

I knew Jing would like it because it's so mysterious and eerie; not the sort of place you would want to hang out by yourself.

  

The steam wafts over in billowing bursts, engulfing, you lose sight of the person standing right next to you.

You feel alone yet together

The sun shafts into your back casting your shadow into the close misty screen. 

They  waltz, ghosts  swirling in the  air.

 
 I dissolve. 
I could be on a moon scape or in Japan after a nucleur explosion
My breath  laboured and  laden with intoxicating sulphur odour. 

 

The manuka all piney.   It's feather fingers caress your hands as you brush past.  

Thermal water underneath the bridge seeps into the soles of your shoes,warming, turning them rubbery and malleable.

Mist wraps around you like an alpaca blanket.

 Or encased in a silk caterpiller's cacoon.

 

 Algae blooms in the surging water. 

 The plop  of bubbling mud pools splutter

 

One false step and you would be boiled alive in this witches couldron

 

Double exposure photography allows  layers and colours into scenes making them surreal and slippery like a Dali painting 

Ambiguity is freedom, allowing you to travel into your imagination

The Kurau park secret spot is the departure point into another mysterious, sinister and surprising world. 

Get lost in it and see how you have changed once you come in from the other side. 
Do you feel more alive or closer to death?  

Activity 
Go for a walk. Take some photos. You can use your phone camera if you don't have a DSLR
 Manipulate them into surreal colours and write some haiku and poetry  about them. 
Opportunites for haiku are all around you. 
Take time out now. 
It's  great way to bring peace into your world.

Creative Quote of the day

“my love is a winter’s mist
 
gently dissolving
 
through the window
 
at the nape of your neck.” 
 
― Sanober Khan, A touch, a tear, a tempest

Book a haiku and photography workshop with me.
 Group or school enquiries welcome Phone 346-3435
 or email jkeen@clear.net.nz . 
Prices on application. 

Six week Journaling journey towards being sugar free and abundant. Day 3.

Illustration 5 
Janet embraces changes in all seasons. 

It's easy to become despondent in winter, but this year I am aiming to stay in the present moment and see what each season has to offer.

 Autumn is a kaliederscope of yellows, oranges and browns which make pretty stimulating photos. 

In the midde of winter I am planning to visit my clients farm in Reporoa and I'm going to take shots of  naked. silver tees in the mist. 

Hopefully  I  will also get some great action  shots of snorting, steaming  cows  on grass, munching hay. 

 Frost back lit on grass with a macro lens presents opportunities  for artistic photos. 

Illustration 6. 

Janet appreciates those closest to her

Graham my husband is my soul mate. 

This means that he tolerates my quirks of which there are many. 

 He always supports my artistic journey and is a whizz on the computer. 

He has saved me from many virus attacks and  technical mal functions. 

He brings me breakfast in bed on the weekends. 

He often has kind words to say about my personality and he is tirelessly loyal.  

He appreciates my cooking and he always feeds the hungry demanding, " Love of my life," cat. 

His chief fault is that he won't let me have a dog because he doesn't like cleaning up dog waste or barking.  

I have to live vicariously through other people's dogs.

So far I  have had 10 dogs visit my studio with their owners and I am looking forward to more. 

 Graham enjoys sailing and chess and is highly intelligent. 

 He was top scholar in the 7th form at Boys High and he's always sorting out engineering problems at his work. 

I appreciate him and I am lucky to have him as an excellent biking companion. 

In a relationship I think it's important to have freedom and a strong sense of yourself and your own goals. 

Being your own life coach is a the name of a good book I have on the subject which helps you to have a balance in all areas of your life. 

Balance promotes happiness. 

So readers, do you sometimes take your significant  others for granted and forget to express your gratitude to them for all the nice things they do for you on a daily basis? 

Try writing a short note of appreciation and slip it under their pillow with a short poem. 

Write to me at jkeen@clear.net.nz with your results. 

Book in for a poetry writing and illustration class. Monday, Tuesday Wednesday and Friday mornings, 9.30am to 11,30am

Phone 346-3435 to book your space. 

Creative Quote of the Day

 “What’s the difference?” I asked him. “Between the love of your life, and your soulmate?”

“One is a choice, and one is not.”
—Tarryn Fisher

Double Exposure, Ohiwa Harbour.

 Ohiwa Harbour New Zealand, is a place I would recommend because of it's unspoilt beauty.

My husband and i go there two or three times a year and we walk a lot and recently we have taken to riding around it. 

It has wonderful photographic opportunities. 

We stay at the Ohiwa beach Camping Ground in Unit One

I usually do a a lot of artwork here and I find the fresh air is good for my soul. 

It's only about one and a half hours car ride away and the scenery there is also very rural and exciting. 

Have a creative time by taking a break away beside the sea. 

Day 2. of six week being sugar free. 

The aim of the illustrations is to chart my journey of being sugar free and abundant for six weeks. 

During this time  I will create two illustrations a day and they will be reminding  myself  and others to live in the now to be mindful and positive and to embrace the abundance that is flowing my and your way. 

I will endeavour to interpret these drawings that come from the subconscious of self discovery and abundance, plus commit to being sugar free ( I repeat this because it's really important).

 If you eat sugar to keep your emotions stuffed down inside you, you will never be free to live in the golden light. 

Addictions like sugar, alcohol or even too much TV watching keep you stuck. 

Come on a 6 week journey with me to free yourself. 

Together we can achieve more.   

 Rotorua readers are welcome to sign up for a six week doodling classes with me at a cost of $25.00 per lesson. 

All you need is a visual diary, a set of HB pencils, a rubber and some black in pens. 

Phone 3463435 or email jkeen@clear.net.nz to sign up today. 

 You can do it. You can change your life starting now.

Illustration 3 

Janet goes on a literary break to Tauranga 

I want to write travel articles and be paid to do so. 

I also want the travel experiences to be paid by the publisher. 

Tall ask I hear you say. 

But unless you start visualising and writing you will never get there, so start today. 

Other people do it, why can't I? 

The power is in the believing in possibilities. 

What are your aspirations readers? 

Get out your diaries and start drawing and writing about them today. 

Illustration 4. 

Janet surrounds herself with spiritual role models and people who will pray for her success. 

Prayer to God.

Please God fill my life with love, light, and helpful friendships that help me get closer to you.

Let me use my skills and talents to help the world be a more enjoyable, peace filled, fun filled, relaxing  and trustworthy place. 

Please let me be surrounded by respect. 

Please let me not be deterred from my path by people who are jealous  of me or who try to use me for their selfish ends. 

Let me attract good God loving people who are aligned with my adventure and travel plans. 

I trust in you God and pray that others too can reach their dreams and goals through doodling and illustrating. 

Let's go forth and be creative today. 

Who can you surround yourself as spiritual mentors and guides to help you along your journey towards the light?

List them and make a drawing about them and see who  you attract. 

Write to me at jkeen@clear.net.nz with your successes. 

Quote of the day. 

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ”
― Pablo Picasso,