While the temperatures drop during fall, warmth gets captured elsewhere: in the colors of softening sunrays and falling leaves. The leaves charm me as they plaster the city, like a two week campaign running ablaze. [..]

Meanwhile, the inhabitants of the summer slowly wave their goodbyes; the curious sparrow, the bronzed girl and a lady bug, who blindly faces the girl’s loyal companion even in the colder winter months; the vehicle she parked ever so neatly on the sidewalk of her street.

An Ode to October
Oil on canvas
23 x 30 cm
2026
Text by Jana Villaluz

Astronomy tells us about an entity of acute magnetism, something that devours virtually anything that treads into its voracious orbit, even roping in stars into its realm of absolute darkness. We know the name of this phenomenon. [..]

So like a helpless speck of cosmic dust in the face of a black hole, my hand invariably plunges for the slick penumbral slice of endless promises; my phone screen, the dubious companion whose gaze 
I always seek.

Magnetism
Oil on canvas
25 x 25 cm
2026
Text by Jana Villaluz

What is my time worth, if not to paint a tabletop like an excerpt of a wooden sea, evaporating in parts into caustic air, and a skull hulled in a sliver of lemon destined for the landfill.

For the Landfill
Oil on canvas
23 x 30 cm
2025
Text by Jana Villaluz

With the obscene overtaking the pristine, my imagination felt a nostalgic pull towards the tavern paintings of the Dutch old masters, who diligently depicted those pungent, rowdy sceneries with a tender eye for the soundless details. [..]

My painting shifts the attention to the minute lives of the creatures we don’t see, and the traces that both our species leave behind. 

Traces
Oil on canvas
23 x 30 cm
2026
Text by Jana Villaluz

Anatomy: whimsical, guttural, deeply fundamental. As an artist and a student, anatomy is a subject I keep looping back to. In a curious form of self-exploration, I investigate what our deepest crevices consist of, and how beautifully they are able to catch the light.

Our Deepest Crevices
Oil on canvas
23 x 30 cm
2026
Text by Jana Villaluz

Flushed cheeks, the flesh of the eye and the stern strip of the mouth cooperate to show what goes by many names: the emotions made up of vital reds, golden greens and pallid greys.

Oil on canvas
23 x 30 cm
2026
Text by Jana Villaluz