Collector Spotlight: Allaire Janis

Allaire first discovered my work at the Certain Women Art Show in Salt Lake City. The piece she first fell in love with is called “Medicine Woman”, and depicts the peaceful healing sanctuary my soul often yearns for. It spoke to her because she was also looking for that place.

She brought it home and began shaping her interior design around that theme, bringing in elements of the earth–stone, wood, steel, and herbs–that worked together with the art to bring a naturally elegant feel. Walking through her home, I felt the cathartic, peaceful sanctuary she was striving to create.

As things came together, she commissioned another piece that complimented the first. Her idea was to create a painting that allowed the viewer to look the opposite way from the woman in the outdoor herbal kitchen to the field that she was facing. Both pieces are placed in a way that the viewer can stand between them and have a panoramic feel of a distinct apothecary and herbal fields.

The final piece Allaire added to her collection is called “Pasture” and ties in with the quest for peace but emphasizes the Source of it, our Shepherd. She placed it in her study above the desk she uses for her scripture study. The room is the entryway into her home and is beautifully accented with stone, stained glass echoing that found in the Payson Temple, and a small Christus statue.

To say that I’m honored to be part of someone’s home would be an understatement, especially in Allaire’s. She captured what I was trying to as an artist and brought it to life–a place of rest, somewhere to come and immerse oneself in the beauties of the earth, and to sit with the One who provided them.