Jan Kanter Photographs (jan@jankanter.com)

Jan Kanter Photographs ([email protected])

Hieroglyph	Land of Dreams	Sun Shower
Ruby Leaves	Winged Jewel	Before Morning Coffee
Passage of Time	Granite Playground	Strange Geometry
Cool World	Winter Lace	Inside the Sun
Little Frog	Hall of Mosses	Ornament
Cellular Landscape	Incandescence	Northern Forest
Dancing Leaves	Wild Lupines	The Flood
Meadow Anemone	Morning Walk	Cactus Flower
Emerald Forest	Winter Rill	Crystal City
Winter Light	Earth's Crown	Into the Night
Leaf Painting	Mossy Forest	Among the Clouds
Opalescent Pool	Snowy Stream	White Sands
Seedling	Alternate States	Symmetry
Water Lilies	Blue Allium	Snow Clouds
Formal Landscape	Deciduous Fantasy	Wooden Gargoyle
Elegant Rocks	Snow Bunny	Graphic Landscape
Snow Wraiths	The Gathering	Fallen Angel
Fluffyland	The Forest Floor	Morning Light
Autumn Fantasy	Trees at Dawn	Bentonite Hills
A Wall of Green	Stone Rainbow	Poison Moon
Asteroidea	Sunrise	Swans and Geese
Sugar Maple	Star and Comet	Frosty Trees
Spider Town	Meadowhawk at Daybreak	Fall Colors
Touch-Me-Not	Ferns	Trillium
Web Abstract	Extravaganza	Trumpeter Swans
Smiling Elk	Camouflaged Cat

Artist's Statement

Jan Kanter is a Chicago photographer with a special interest in nature. Although she enjoys city life and people's activities, most of her images show few signs of human presence. She travels many miles to find lush bluestem grasslands, ferny forests, theatrical trees and rocks, lava fields, and other magical settings. Some of her photographs show emotional landscapes that suggest joy, tranquility, desolation, or chaos. Many are small scenes--chance arrangements of twigs, small frogs on leaves, water droplets, the shadows of dune grasses.
In addition to her nature studies, Kanter also loves the wonderful shapes found at industrial sites, such as storage tanks, pipes, wiring, walls of windows, metal catwalks, and other industrial forms. Chicago has hundreds of interesting bridges, factories, and other structures that are fun to photograph. And, of course, there are the fabulous items to be found on the road--mysterious buildings, prophetic clouds, amusing signs, and plaster rhinoceroses.
Some of the photographs in this collection are from Jan Kanter's series "Jewels of the Forest." She is also at work on several other series, including "Landscapes of the Mind," "The Poetry of Grass," and "Ephemera."

Prices available upon request.