My work is informed and inspired by dreams, mythology, Nature, and spirituality. I create symbolic imagery that reinforces and celebrates connection with Nature, resonates with the psyche, and explores states of personal transcendance. I'm interested in the spaces where these things overlap, and the inner and outer worlds come together.

Much of my work contemplates the symbolic meaning of the Circle within a Square. The circle is an ancient and universal symbol of unity, wholeness, and the infinite. It is also symbolic of a sacred space, the Center, the Self. Historically the square is symbolic of the Earth, the natural structured order of the Universe and of pairs of opposites in the field of time. Together the circle and square are a visual metaphor recognizing the inter-connectedness and oneness of the life force in all things. All Our Relations.

My paintings that place a circle within a square are meditations on the positive energy at work within these symbols.

All of the paintings featured here are originals, and are acrylic, encaustic and/or mixed media on canvas or board.

My studio is located at Artworks Downtown in San Rafael, California.

10% of sales of paintings and fine art prints will be donated to The Pachamama Alliance, an organization committed to:
' bring forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, socially just human presence on this planet.'

Please feel free to contact me with inquiries and/or to request your own commissioned original painting.

All work © copyright Janelle Schneider and may not be used without permission from the artist.