Barbara Januszkiewicz

“Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.”

“Imagination needs to be fed.”

“Color is a passion; painting is a passion.”

“Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.”

“Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.”

“Art matters.”

“Most of the time, I never go back. I leave my brush mark and move on.”

“Ideas come through us, not from us.”

“Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.”

“If you look at how beautiful the eye can be, it has its own inside patterns and colors.”

“There's a moment of awe when you watch the colors dry and become lighter.”

“Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.”

“This is about relationships, about the placement of potent colors and the canvas sparkling through. I want the eye to dance across the canvas but direct you, too.”

“Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.”

“Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.”