Artist

Mural Arist / Painter / Illustrator / Author

In the words of the great Ed Templeton from the movie Beautiful Losers.

Paintings of Jan Valik balance on the edge of perception where abstract and figurative becomes fluid, evoked within a spatial and pictorial ambiguity interlocked with a tension of simultaneous presence and absence to disrupt conventional binaries of perception.  

Playful Promises

artist, baby, giant

As I was building this it came together like a fabric, like the cells in a living organism. There’s tons of desert foliage, lots of sand (with hidden neon), and even a few beads and piercings (because I can).

Even deserts make themselves an oasis and you are already mostly water

Artist of the Arctic and Antarctic

Between Sky, Sand, and Soul

Tracing your outline

Using clay, handmade sterling silver, 18-karat gold, cast metal, tapestry, embroidery, pigment, and paints, my intricate assemblages aim to powerfully address world injustices such as the uneven distribution of wealth and the global hunger epidemic.