Early Works | Janice Bartke Thompson

• Ovum

  Oil, Panel, 10" x 12". “Ovum” was simply inspired by frog’s eggs. I was particularly taken by their transparency and interplay of light upon each egg. – Bartké

• Impressions of NYC

  Oil, Canvas, 20" x 16". The year was 1985, and the death of my 26-year-old stepson, David, took me from Texas to Connecticut for his funeral. As I drove with my bereaved husband from Newark through New York, I caught gl…

• Woodducks

  Oil, Panel, 24" x 30". There are few birds as colorful as the Wood duck drake. The early work depicts a pair of Wood Ducks in portrait. At the time of its painting, it was intended as an entry in the federal duck stamp…

• Sea Side

  Oil, Canvas, 8" x 10". Nothing much to say about this small seaside piece; it’s just a seascape. – Bartké

• Back in the Bayou

  Oil, Canvas, 24" x 48'. The work, “Down in the Bayou” seeks to capture the omnipresent still and quite deep within the backwoods hidden swamp land in the early morning dawn. The reflections in the water and the lily pad…

• Old Rock House

  Oil, Canvas, 30" x 24". It was spring. The wildflowers were in bloom at the ranch and the old rock house stood, as it had for a century, to meet a new dawn along the Brazos. – Bartké

• Moon Bay

  Oil, Canvas, 20" x 16"

• Coral Heaven

  Oil, Canvas, 24" x 36".  The coral reef is a magical world. For the diver, they cannot go there enough. The work “Coral Heaven” attempts to capture the underwater world of the coral reef and the diverse life forms that…

• Dawn

  Oil, Canvas, 36" x 48". It was an early morning when three does came out of the mist to water that spring morning. Surrounded by the vastness of the land of west Texas, they were dwarfed by the majestic landscape. – Bar…