Today I am going to write about the creative muse that lives within us all. My friend Janice Micek is an incredibly talented artist.
Her specialty of the moment is assemblage art. She lives her life in an artful manner. I went to a workshop in her home and asked if I could come back and photograph her "Arty Still Life's". I was inspired by her love of nature and her ability to tell a story with objects.
Tables filled with silver from a bygone era, shells and other treasures from the sea, a bowl of pieces and corners of old frames, not to mention the charming natural whimsy that was the underlying foundation to her display work. Janice also had a fair amount of nests and all were displayed in a cozy and nesty fashion. 
Oh yes, this is a woman I could and will be very good friends with.
She loves art and the natural world and she understands how to integrate them into pieces that are clearly personal and pure magic. You go girl!
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Janice Micek is a dear friend of mine (indeed a "best"), and I was once a longtime guest in her beautiful (almost magical) home --
I can certainly corroborate how amazing her instinct, and passion, for beauty is. Her desire to find and create beauty in everything is innate and prodigious.
Anyway, I just wanted to say that I've been blessed enough to live in that beautiful and joyful home (what joy can be found in mere visual reality! <--& I have hereby betrayed my dorkiness)... and I am so incredibly grateful.
We should all attempt to see the beauty in life's little scraps...the heirlooms left behind for us to piece together and better understand our reality...
Janice's inherently, irrepressibly artistic lifestyle does indeed inspire me to do that.
And as far as getting to know her: I say you can only benefit. :) The artistic community is a blessed thing, and we should nourish it all we can. Janice is a fount of ideas and has more materials to create with than...well, anyone I've met yet. She is just so very inspiring; I can't express that enough.
How great to get a chance to acknowledge my friend's contributions to the world...online!! :D
Namaste --
Jana Copeland
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