The Horses
Charcoal and mixed media on prepared panel, made over three decades — the series most people meet her through. Click any work to enlarge.
Four decades at the easel. Charcoal, oil and a line that refuses to settle — horses, gardens, seascapes and dancers, held in private collections across Europe and the United States.
Originals and enquiries — write to Janina →
Nothing is drawn onto the surface.
Everything is drawn out of it.
Charcoal and mixed media on prepared panel, made over three decades — the series most people meet her through. Click any work to enlarge.
Every work on this page is available as a museum-quality print — made to order, framed if you like, and shipped anywhere in the world.
Browse all 45 by subject below, or open any painting on this page and follow its Prints link straight to that piece.
Canvas, framed paper, metal or acrylic, in sizes from small to over a metre wide. Prices start around $47.
Printed and framed to order by her fulfilment partner, and delivered worldwide with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
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Originals are sold directly and are not reproduced — ask what is available.
The ground is built up and scraped back long before a line is laid down — which is why her horses look like they are surfacing through the panel rather than sitting on it.
About Janina
Janina Pazdan began studying fine art at fourteen and never really stopped. A decade of classical training led to a Master’s degree in Fine Arts in 1983 — drawing, painting, ceramics, sculpture and design, all of it still visible in the way she builds a surface.
Her formative loves were the French moderns — Monet, Degas, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec — painters of movement and weather rather than of detail. That inheritance shows: a horse arrives out of a storm, a garden dissolves at the edges, a dancer is only ever half-there.
She works from Orange County, California, where the seascapes and gardens have quietly entered the work. Her most recent series comes from dance — a passion she took up herself, and then took to canvas. After more than forty years, her paintings and drawings hang in private collections across Europe and the United States.
Janina paints full-scale interpretations of the paintings that shaped her — by hand, in the sequence the original was made in. A small number are accepted each year.
Forty years of looking has taught Janina not just what the masters painted but how they built it — the ground, the underdrawing, the order of the glazes. Her interpretations are made by hand, at full scale, in the sequence the original was made in. On a wall, at the right distance, people have taken them for the thing itself.
The one difference is the one that matters. Every work is signed in her own name, inscribed on the panel with the painting it follows, and delivered with a certificate stating plainly what it is. She makes them the way a great luthier makes a Stradivarius model: all of the craft, none of the deception.
Painted after Velázquez
Available originals, commissions, exhibitions — and anything the pages above didn’t answer. Every letter is answered personally.
