Gallery Juana blog

The word Crossing came to mind as a title for this series back in September 2024 following a year of life changes. Entering 2025 my life contined to be in flux and I felt as though I were on a long trek moving through unknowns and learning as I manuevered through this new state of being. I was in the act of crosing and I was trying to comprehend the journey. The Crossing Series is comprised of six paintings that I started in mid 2024. I finished the project (including the documenting of it) at the end of 2025.    Part I     Part II     Part III  six postcards- The Crossing Series Find me on Etsy: https://galleryjuana.etsy.com

2.6 x 3.6 inches small gicllee prints on canvas  Currently only limited prints are available for this series.   2.6 x 3.6 inches small painted gicllee prints on canvas  Videos about my latest project:  The Crossing Series. Each video has a the written transcript included at the end. Find me on Etsy: https://galleryjuana.etsy.com

aceo giclee limited edition print on canvas I will have limited edition prints (2.5 x 3.5 inches) available in my Gallery Juana Etsy shop available November 2025. The original is 18 x 24 mixed media on canvas adhered to a support. I started this painting on December 25, 2024 and finished it later in May of 2025.  Purchase my art works on Etsy: https://galleryjuana.etsy.com

aceo giclee on canvas, Gallery Juana Crossing five is 16 inches x 20 inches mixed media on paper adhered to a support. And I started this painting back in May of 2024.  I don't have any notes in my journals about this painting. And I think that's partly because of everything that was going on in my life at that time.   I spent the latter half of 2024 trying to find my bearings and art played an integral part in doing so. I will have limited edition prints available in my Gallery Juana Etsy shop available November 2025. Purchase my art works on Etsy: https://galleryjuana.etsy.com

Crossing III and Crossing IV aceo giclee on canvas Crossing III and IV, started with an under layer of charcoal.   Next, I painted layers of sumi and walnut inks sculpting the figures as the inks dried. The originals are 18 by 24 inches, canvas glued onto a support. I will have limited edition prints available in my Gallery Juana Etsy shop available November 2025. While I was healing for a good month, my partner, you know, he was there the entire time one hundred percent. He was this pillar of strength for me and comfort and love. I wanted to impart a spiritual strength of getting through this arduous part of a journey … digging deep within one’s soul in order to carry on.  Looking at these two paintings now: I sense their strength and resilience. Purchase my art works on Etsy: https://galleryjuana.etsy.com

Crossing II, giclee on canvas, 2.5 x 3.5 inches This crossing series developed during a pivotal time in my life. I could visualize different paths leading into and also leading out from this personal juncture where I had reached. There was also this undefining in my life at that time and I was finding freedom in this taking away of narratives. And so it was a time when my perspectives were shifting and illuminating this broader reality that I felt I could live in going forward. In a good way and in a better way, my world had expanded. I will have limited edition prints available in my Gallery Juana Etsy shop available November 2025. Purchase my art works on Etsy: https://galleryjuana.etsy.com

aceo giclee on canvas, limited edition, Crossing I, GalleryJuana The paintings I've included in this series were completed during a time in which my life pivoted into and out of a single event. When I completed this first painting in the series, I’d just come out of a traumatic and chaotic time and was feeling anxious, determined and cautiously hopeful. Although I was feeling better, I knew that I had to be aware of my physical health because I was not completely healed yet. And I think with this figure, it was that caution that I was feeling and that determination and this impatience of my experience at that time. I will have limited edition prints available in my Gallery Juana Etsy shop available November 2025.  Purchase my art works on Etsy: https://galleryjuana.etsy.com