Persephone's Garden Laura Colors often requiring over a hundred

often requiring over a hundred hours of dedication and intimacy with each piece

Oil on cradled wood panel

or tricking Atlas into taking the sky back onto his shoulders

His work has been exhibited in galleries around the United States

I still remember the day my dad showed me his cartoon drawings he did for his high school newspaper

Persephone's Garden Laura Colors often requiring over a hundredDetails About Oil on canvas mounted on panel 24 x 31. 5 in. 2020 Jana Brike was born in Latvia, a small country in the Northeastern part of Europe, while it was under Soviet occupation. Her childhood was bittersweet, molded by dark stories of war and deportation told to her by her grandparents, the cold and conservative atmosphere of catholic church ceremonies, and heightened by breathtaking ballets at the Opera House. Her inspirations are as diverse